#1 most frequent
United States of America
60.0%6 installations of 10
What is McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)?
McAfee's Total Protection included antivirus and antimalware offerings for home and small businesses or home offices. This product line is not a focus for Trellix, the brand formed from the merger of McAfee and FireEye that offers business grade products. Trellix Endpoint Security is the company's product line for business endpoint security.
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Product Demos
Who Buys & Uses McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
20.0%2 installations of 10
#3 most frequent
India
10.0%1 installation of 10
Solid and Reliable Security
Pros
- Notifies you instantly when it finds a threat or potential threat
- Stays up-to-date
- Useful for mobile devices and laptops
- User friendly
Cons
- Random McAfee popups can be annoying
- Sometimes it blocks websites I need to use for work as being potentially harmful
- Scans can sometimes take a while
Return on Investment
- Blocks unsafe websites
- Virus detection and removal
- Protects sensitive data
Alternatives Considered
Norton and Malwarebytes
Other Software Used
Malwarebytes
Look no further for reliable protection.
Pros
- Excellent protection of all internet connected assets on our VPN.
- Constant updates of needed security patches that ensure our network and systems are protected from current and emerging/potential threats.
- Prompt and reliable customer service that provides needed answers and expertise in a crisis.
- Strategic whitepapers on emerging cyber threats and McAfee solutions to resolve them before they become a problem for my team or our clients.
Cons
- Updates while always current and valuable occur very often and need to be administered constantly if your systems administrators do not schedule them on a regular basis.
- Depending on your system it can be a resource burden when running in the background.
- Interface can be difficult to navigate at times for non-experienced users.
Return on Investment
- McAfee briefings have alerted us to threats BEFORE they happen allowing us to shore up networks and security.
- Frequent updates keep our system protected and provide valuable usage and system data that lets us determine the overall efficiency of our network and systems in one suite of products.
- McAfee's constant 24/7 protection has saved money by assuring our systems are protected and therefore have saved us time by avoiding costly reconstiution of compromised systems.
Alternatives Considered
Symantec Norton (SMB),AVG
McAfee Solutions Review
Pros
- Integration - McAfee builds their products to ensure integration with pre-existing products is seamless.
- Customizability - Granular management of policies and security controls, able to tune and mold solutions to individual organizations.
- Reliability - When configured properly, McAfee solutions rarely have issues. In the case they do, support is phenomenal.
Cons
- Price - Extremely high price tag for many of the solutions.
Return on Investment
- N/A
Other Software Used
Rapid7 NeXpose, Metasploit