Pro: Buy this only if you need all 3 programs and do not already have any of them.
Those being:
1. anti-virus
2. firewall
3. anti spyware

CONS: several (read on)

My antispyware from mcafee expired sept 2006.
I contacted mcafee and found out that you cannot buy it separately anymore.

You have to buy a stupid "suite" of mcafee softwares in order to get the
antispyware program.

So I bought this particular mcafee "suite" .

[Remember now, I bought this ONLY for the antispyware program.
(maybe down the road, I'll use the mcafee firewall. But at present
my ZA6 is still good for 6 months).

Just the Antispyware program].

What mcafee did NOT tell me is that this "Suite" will want to install
what it thinks I should install, not what I tell it I want/need installed.

Surprise #1 !

The antispyware does not have it's own install program.
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No matter what the configuration screens say, you *CANNOT* get this software to stop using your network for anything it wants without your approval.

No matter what the configuration screens say, you *CANNOT* get this software to stop popping up those annoying-as-hell messages on the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Beyond being terribly annoying with their in-your-face display of how you don't have control of your own computer, these pop-up messages can mess up full-screen graphics software.

McAfee customer support is offensive. They treat you like you're an idiot, as if you don't know what you're talking about. Then after weeks of several people trying to explain the problem (this is in the McAfee message forums), once McAfee DOES understand the problem, they dismiss you like you're incompetent. Then in the next software update not only aren't these horrible, glaring, disgusting problems with the software not fixed, they're WORSE THAN EVER.

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I upgraded to this latest version of the McAfee product, wanting only the VirusScan, which has served me well over many years. Unfortunately, you must now accept a "suite" of solutions that McAfee deems in your best interest. If you need the functionality of the whole suite, you may be satisfied - or not. If you only want one component, you bought a truckload of trouble. It claims to be user-configurable. You will get a lot of practice at this because the product resets to McAfee's default configuration every few days. It requires considerable time and effort to drill down and disable each item in that configuration. But you have little choice. The program will nag you without mercy until you are "fully protected" - every time you boot up. One McAfee-dictated setting is a deep scan of your system every morning. You probably know that can pretty much tie up your processor for the rest of the day. McAfee Customer Service has been, well, politely quiet. In my view McAfee VirusScan has... Read more