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Review of McAfee VirusScan Video
Get the inside scoop on how McAfee VirusScan fared against 17 other products we reviewed. What are the strengths, what are the weaknesses?
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The McAfee brand has long been a main stay in virus protection. Their signature product, VirusScan is effective at protecting your computer but suffers from large stumbling blocks such as draining system resources and lack of essential features. The program doesn’t provide instant message protection, P2P/file sharing protection or registry startup protection. The winner of our gold award has all of these features. McAfee offers the ability to set VirusScan to scan your computer at a specific time. But this function is limited and you can't add some tasks to the Scheduled Scan. It would be great to have the ability to scan all your files once a month or program files weekly or any other tasks you would like to set up. But VirusScan simply doesn’t offer this ability. Help options are offered but the results were disappointing. Their email response time took 5 days. This is simply unacceptable for a paid program with the name recognition McAfee has. When they finally responded they didn't answer all of our questions, hence the low rating. Other downsides to the program include that VirusScan takes over many files and folders on your system that can in turn affect the performance on your machine. We’ve have found that McAfee leaves a heavy foot-print on your system resources and is excessively intrusive on your activities. McAfee is a name brand product that does an excellent job at detecting and removing viruses. But setbacks in other areas put it in the lower bracket of the products we reviewed; it currently comes in at eleven.
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