| McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008 (3 User Edition) (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: McAfee
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £24.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 108
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 731944568782
EAN: 0731944568782
ASIN: B000TUSY1I
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: NEW IN FACTORY SEALED RETAIL BOX. DISPATCH FROM UK WITHIN 2 DAYS. BRAND NEW BOX.COMPLETE PACKAGE 3 USER LICENSE.
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| Customer Reviews:
 User-friendly, accessible and a good safeguard August 15, 2008
This product is very easy to install and set up. I think my computer is running faster and more smoothly as a result. My one gripe would be occasionally that it refuses to update and gives me no reason, but this is probably more a user problem than a software one! All in all I feel much more secure now I am protected by the security suite and I didn't need to be a geek to install it either! Which is a bonus.
 Good Old McAfee August 8, 2008
The fourth edition of McAfee that I have installed. Installation a bit long winded but no problems otherwise.
Buy it ! July 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having been using norton I/s since 2005 I got fed up with my xp laptop crashing with the lastest norton I/S 2008.
So I decided time for a change and brought the mcafee I/S 2008.
I downloaded the removal tool from nortons web site and made sure everything had been removed.
Installed the mcafee from the cd supplied no problems at all. did have slight problem getting the product registered but I think that was a web site problem. But contacted web support the responded the next day as it was a weekend but bye then the problem had been fixed.
Have been using for a couple of weeks now with excellent results computer much faster and have gained 2gb memory back having unistalled norton.
Live update runs without even slowing the computer.
Wish I had changed years ago. Never buy norton.
Buy Mcafee a great easy to use and install product with excellent aftersales.
Simple to use, intuitive interface 100% happy with this! July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was a little wary about this at first as I'd heard stories that it wasn't very good, took up a load of PC resources etc.
Hoverer am delighted to report that I'm 100% happy with the software. PC Seems to work faster for some reason too! :-)
The interface is intuitive, the updates are fast and easy to sort out just the once during setup and I'd happily recommend this to anyone looking for Anti Virus software, 10/10
Quick, slick and plenty of features. July 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After removing my freeware alternatives, the McAfee ISS install took just 30 minutes. That included 10-15 minutes for the automatic download of the latest version from the net, and 5-10 minutes for a preliminary scan of my machine.
The registration process was swift and easy, with no codes to enter, just personal details. The email confirmation showed that the product was correctly identified as a 3 user license.
After that, a quick reboot and I was up and running - painless.
I selected the standard/full install with anti-virus, personal firewall, site advisor etc, and when my machine was back up my online apps worked straight away. IE, Firefox, Thunderbird and Skype all seem to be preconfigured in the firewall for net access, and the only item I had on auto startup that caused a firewall popup was VNC which seems fair to me.
The popup system will seem familiar to anyone who has used other firewalls and is as straightforward here as anywhere. The popups are the software's way of learning your preferences with regard to which applications on you PC should be allowed access to your network and/or the internet. As always you therefore need to know which applications do what (internet search engines can always help out there if you get stuck) and whether or not you want them to access the internet.
The first thing I did when up and running was run a full scan of my system. McAfee managed to find three suspect items on my machine, one of which was borderline, the other two defiitely bad. The two bad items (malicious scripts from web sites, I believe) were quarantined, the other I could chose whether to delete or ignore.
Performance wise, my main desktop PC (a Pentium 4, 2.4GHz with 1GB RAM and about 5 years old) copes very well with the software, showing only a very slight slow down during McAfee updates. My laptop (900MHz Pentium M with just 256MB RAM and also about 5yrs old), however, grinds to a halt and is all but unusable while the software updates (it can sometimes be an hour before my laptop is useable!).
It just seems to be the updates that slow things down though. Once they are complete the software has very little impact on your working whatsoever. In fact you can forget its there until it intervenes in suspicious activity and pops up its warning and asks what you want to do.
In summary, then, this is a slick and effective package with plenty of useful features (anti-virus, firewall, parental controls, privacy functions that prevent you from accidentally sending sensitive data to un-secured websites, site advisor and more). It found infections that my previous, free installation had missed, but we must always bear in mind that no anti-virus software is infallible and take sensible precautions online anyway.
It works well on a reasonably spec'd machine, but older, less powerful machines may struggle during the automatic updates (which seem to be daily). Any new PC should cope fine.
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