ContentProtect vs. McAfee WebAdvisor (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ContentProtect
Score 8.0 out of 10
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ContentWatch in Salt Lake City, Utah offers ContentProtect, a web content filtering solution.N/A
McAfee WebAdvisor (discontinued)
Score 8.6 out of 10
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McAfee WebAdvisor was a tool that helped to keep Internet browsers safe from malicious websites for general users. It is not a focus for Trellix, the company formed from the merger of McAfee and FireEye that provides business-grade security products, and the company recommends alternatives.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ContentProtectMcAfee WebAdvisor (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
ContentProtectMcAfee WebAdvisor (discontinued)
Top Pros
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ContentProtectMcAfee WebAdvisor (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
ContentWatch
If you are looking for something relatively inexpensive to lock down specific computers, it would be a useful tool. If the computers themselves aren't too locked down, implementation and management shouldn't be too difficult.
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McAfee Web Protection is a great tool when your work requires you to surf the internet a lot and download files. Being a Software Developer, I have to search for a lot of things and have to visit lots of websites for solutions or learning new concepts. Having McAfee's Web Protection enables me to visit only the sites that are safe and it even blocks the trackers. It also scans the files (usually software and codes) that I download and lets me know whether they are safe to open or not.
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Pros
ContentWatch
  • avoid employee time and resource waste
  • Multi platform
  • Content is protected
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  • Make Web Surfing safe and secure.
  • Block Trackers.
  • Notifies if a webpages are safe.
  • Scans downloads.
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Cons
ContentWatch
  • Our primary policy is a restricted list, so that does as advertised. We had one location that had blocks based on categories (adult, illegal, etc). We continually had issues with sites getting completely blocked due to unrelated content. For example, Yahoo had a beer ad on the page, alcohol was blocked, so Yahoo became blocked for the period of time that ad was displayed. We had this happen multiple times and eventually switched to a different solution at that location.
  • I've had issues with their cloud portal not working. I don't have to edit our configuration often, but on numerous occasions, i was unable to get the configuration page to load after login, sometimes for days. The platform just wasn't stable when I needed it to be.
  • We run many of our remote rooms as frozen (after logoff they reset to the image). This works fine most times, but when content protect needs a configuration change pushed down, someone needs to go 'thaw' the computers, download the updated configuration, and re-'freeze' the computer. It would be nice if that information was just dynamic from the cloud and didn't need to be pulled down.
  • The categorization used for policies is very limited and not flexible or easily customizable.
  • I could never get the usage reporting to work.
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  • It shows a lot of popups to upgrade to AntiVirus which gets annoying sometimes.
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Alternatives Considered
ContentWatch
ContentProtect helps increase productivity by blocking inappropriate or time wasting web content. With the powerful cloud-based administration tools you can make changes and see reports anywhere and anytime. Best part is it is available on all platforms and hence the product is also scalable. Loved it over any product in the current market
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Return on Investment
ContentWatch
  • It was a relatively inexpensive and simple solution when we needed one relatively quickly, which is a positive. The inexpensive price has kept it in the environment.
  • The lack of reliable reporting has lead to the need for an alternate monitoring solution in a few cases. Network level reporting was used, which is a separate expense, configuration.
  • Time has been lost waiting on the portal and then troubleshooting support tickets when sites that shouldn't have been blocked have been blocked. It has resulted in changes for locations that needed dynamic category filtering as opposed to a finite list.
  • The blocking of sites based on add traffic or sub-sites (rather than just blocking that content like other solutions) has resulted in downtime during classes when those sites were listed in the lesson plan and had previously worked.
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  • I am not sure about that as I am just a user and have not been involved with the ROI aspect.
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