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- Price: Free to try
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 11, 2008
- Total Downloads: 29,090
- Downloads last week: 661
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- Average user rating: stars out of 2 votes
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From AOL :Protect your PC from both known and unknown virus attacks, spyware, Trojan horses and malware with McAfee Virus Scan Plus-Special edition from AOL. This comprehensive anti-virus software installs quickly, works fast, always stays on and updates automatically every hour. Plus, it takes traditional virus scanning methods and combines them with advanced technology to help detect and protect against malicious programs that can infect your PC and important files before they are infected.
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Version: McAfee VirusScan Plus - Special Edition
"Good updates, free, horrible realtime protection"
Pros: Good virus protection,
Fantastic that you do not have to purchase this
Reliable in some ways
Has other great little features like a virus enyclopedia, and virus maps, and many more things,Cons: Not quick enough to catch a virus
Have to sign up for an aol account which isnt that bad, espcially when you have to pay $70 for something like nortan!
Slows down computer
Had to use malwarebytes countless times to get viruses and malware off!!!Summary: This is just not a quick of virus software to be able to catch a virus!!! But excellent virus protection software, better than nortan, and kaspersky. Avast, avg and antivir are all limited and really cannot provide the same protection as mcaffe, esp... read more >>
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Version: McAfee VirusScan Plus - Special Edition
"Free, but uses same paid McAfee Scanning Engine"
Pros: First thing is, it is free. It DOES NOT take up a lot of computer system resources if you choose custom install, and then NOT installing the firewall.
Cons: Well the worst part of this is signing up for AOL email account, but hey, it's FREE. And firewall is laggy, don't install that.
Summary: HOW TO DOWNLOAD IF IT DOESNT WORK...
1. Register for the free AOL account.
2. Go BACK to MAIN website, and log in.
3.Then GO BACK TO WHERE YOU DOWNLOAD (if you hit back, refresh).
4. Go through the download process again, it will... read more >> - See all 2 user reviews Write review
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