The McAfee suite worked reasonably well under Win XP but I had difficulties with it under Vista. Ended up switching to OneCare...

My main issue with McAfee is that the service comes with an auto-renewal feature. They will charge your credit card on the subscription's anniversary. Fair enough...

However, I wanted to cancel it as I no longer use the software. To my surprise, you can't just go to the web site, click on a "cancel" link and be done. They actually force you to contact customer service (phone, chat, email) and then take you through a long process (15min in my case) of getting through it. They first put you in a queue, then verify your details multiple times, then, after you make it clear that you want to cancel the service and receive a refund, the conversation goes like this:

Me: Please cancel my service and issue a refund (the 4th time I asked...)
McAfee: why?
Me: I just noticed an auto renewal charge and I don't want the... Read more

The latest incarnation of McAfee's Total Protection (version 2008) seems to have gone backwards in time. Nowadays, when the trend is for users to go wireless, McAfee has decided to strip out their wireless network security component from their Total Protection 2008 suite. This component was integrated into the 2007 version, but for some reason now you need to download it from their website and install it independently. THIS IS HOW THE NIGHMARE BEGINS!!!!!!!
Once installed, the wireless component will then start prompting you endlessly for its own individual registration; but the registration will fail because it conflicts with the registration of the Total Protection suite. Countless hours of non-free (yes, McAfee DOES NOT have free telephone support even for installation issues) have not solved the issue. They instructed me to run a special removal tool they have for their software. McAfee's Total Protection does not uninstall itself completely using Windows' Add/Remove option... Read more

I have memories of former McAfee products. The long start up time, the splash screens every 5 minutes telling you to upgrade, and the programs that didnt work, a TOTAL SYSTEM HOG!! Make a faster computer, software companies will find a way to make it come to a crawl. I read alot of reviews, and finally decided on Kaspersky. Sounded great. From my own experience, it was horrible. The startup scan of the registry took 10 times longer than McAfee, tons of programs that didnt work, couldnt even get alot of web pages, and very little options to change the program settings (P.S. Try to uninstall this product...I dare you). From Russia with umm....love??? Technical support is in Moscow. My first thought was, "who knew more about hackers than the hackers themselves?" As a trial, I had some 200 Gb backed up to a hard drive. I bought the McAfee and wanted to compare. Kaspersky found programs that McAfee didnt, and get this, McAfee found programs that Kaspersky did not. The McAfee starts up... Read more