Most security vendors offer a wide range of products: a basic antivirus, a simple security suite, a more comprehensive security suite, an Ultimate Premium Security Suite with bundled extras and other bits and pieces thrown in to catch your attention.
Take a look at McAfee's consumer range and you'll find it's mostly about one product. McAfee Total Protection is a one-stop security suite which includes antivirus, a firewall, spam filter, malicious URL blocking, file encryption, a password manager, secure file deletion, app and web performance boosters, even basic free Identity Theft Protection for US customers.
Features
McAfee Total Protection keeps its antivirus scanning options to a minimum: just a Quick Scan, a Full System Scan and the ability to scan custom items directly from the Explorer right-click menu.What you don't get is a specific removable drives scan, a custom scan you can define from the interface, or the ability to set up a new scan type or define how it works. For example, Avast's Windows products can be used to set up a scan which checks specific file types in the folders you need, using the scanning technologies and rules you define, and you can then run that scan whenever you like. There's nothing like that here.
We couldn't find anything wrong with the scan types that are available, though. Scan speeds were average but acceptable, the program spotted our test malware without difficulty, and whether it was actively scanning or just running in the background, McAfee Total Protection had barely any noticeable effect on our test computer.
An important feature that sophisticated antivirus software should possess is the ability to detect viruses and malware even without having them in their virus detection library. New viruses are constantly coming into the market that aren’t necessarily detected by antivirus software. An intelligent virus detection program ensures that it also detects suspicious processes on the computer which try to sneak into sensitive areas. One of the best-known tests in this area is the so-called EICAR virus test (European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research) by the Belgian scientist Eddy Willems. The virus test is so demanding that most antivirus programs fail. In addition, there are always cases that event highly developed and renowned antivirus software pass or fail depending on the year the test is done.
In the meantime many sources report that McAfee is able to stop many of the trojans that are around. All we can say for the Version 2019 is that McAfee seems to have solved many of their internal organizational issues they had in the past and were able to provide oe of the the best virus protections as of 2019. We hope that that McAfee will also be able to continue this good work in 2020. Without hesitation, we can recommend McAfee as your standard antivirus provider in 2019 when it comes to virus protection.
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