![]() ![]() ![]() A couple of times it even shut down my compute because it did overheat. It did work, as in I never had a virus on my computer, but every time it did a full computer scan my laptop would always run hot and the fan would be loud. McAfee was one a family member of mine used and I didn't have much luck with it. Sometimes I do actually pay for an anti-virus software but my family members have always had great protection with several free versions. It has not told me I can't use other AVs lately. It likes to keep it to itself when it's finished. Even if I have notifications turned off, I know when it's updating by the way that I have to reboot my system to get all that RAM back. I don't have three days of minimal computer use to spare. Functions like QuickClean are moved around and nearly hidden, with no tutorials provided to learn one's way around the entirely changed interfaces at each update. The interface keeps changing, and not for the better. Note that I said "when I have a real virus problem." These still occur with McAfee in place and running normally. When I have a real virus problem I ALWAYS have to go to an outside source such as Malwarebytes. McAfee seems to have fallen into incompetent hands and soon I will be abandoning it in favor of basic Microsoft free protection. ![]() They can't leave the user interface alone, and every time they change it, it's larger, uglier, harder to nagivate and more intrusive. I've had it for years and I've watched it go from a sleek, streamlined, efficient protective program to a pondering, greedy monster that eats resources and significantly impacts performance. This thing just gets worse every time they upgrade it. ![]()
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