McAfee Internet Security Suite

If you take a close looks at the McAfee Internet Security Suite you will be pleased to learn that it is eight products rolled into one and its main features include anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware, anti-phishing and even firewall protection as also ability to enhance performance of PC and exercise parental controls. What’s more, it even boasts of a rootkit detection scanner that it calls McAfee X-Ray for Windows.

The first problem you may encounter with this particular software is that it is not so good when handling other installed software on your system such as anti-spyware (third-party) and it is also resource hungry; even more than Norton Internet Security. You could also fault it with the level of ease of use which persists despite having redesigned the interface and the problem is that it is hard to balance the tools and also have them readily accessible.

Still, you can pay about fifty dollars for a single user copy or sixty-nine dollars for one that supports three users which prices are more or less what you would pay for Norton, and if you shop around on the internet you could even get a better deal. Once you get your copy of the McAfee Internet Security Suite downloaded and installed, you can then get down to checking its features such as its interface that have since been standardized as well as simplified and which are integrated so that you don’t have to move about looking for different features. So, you can use one particular table for those tasks that you commonly use while another table could be used if you are an advanced user.

The McAfee Internet Security Suite has feature for backup and also recovery and there is also a feature for maintaining the system that you may not find in competing products, though Virus Map is a feature that is rather superfluous. You can also burn your McAfee Internet Security Suite copy to disc or even save it on your hard disk which is certainly a useful feature which comes in handy should something drastic occur. Also, you will appreciate the Maintain Computer offering as too MacAfee QuickClean that removes cookies and other junk from your browser and any applications that have deleted are also removed from the system registry by using this feature.

If you don’t want anyone to be able to read your deleted files you can overwrite those deleted files with ones and zeroes by using the McAfee Shredder feature and there is another free resource called Eraser that you can also use. So, what you will come to like about the McAfee Internet Security Suite is its interface what includes SiteAdvisor and also the backup and recovery tools as well as data shredder.

What you won’t like is the download that requires completing two steps and its inability to play properly with other anti-virus applications and it is also quite resource heavy. Still, the McAfee Internet Security Suite has some good features and it will provide you adequate protection and can be used if you don’t have any other option.