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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.99 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 01, 2007
- Total Downloads: 5,059,868
- Downloads last week: 13,109
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A newer version of McAfee VirusScan Plus is available.
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- Average user rating: stars out of 705 votes
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Publisher's description
From McAfee :McAfee VirusScan Plus offers proactive PC security to prevent malicious attacks, so you can protect what you value as well as surf, search, and download files online with confidence. McAfee SiteAdvisors Web safety ratings help you avoid unsafe Web sites. This service also provides security against multi-pronged attacks by combining antivirus and antispyware technologies. McAfees security service continuously delivers the latest software so your protection is never out-of-date. You can now easily add and manage security for multiple PCs in your home. Moreover, improved performance allows it to protect, without disturbing you.
Version 2008 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 2008 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008
- Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 705 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008
"Slows down a system to a near crash"
Cons: Slows down a system to a near crash and it took about 1GB of RAM with it.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE THIS SOFTWARE
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008
Pros: Included an anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and some other useful features. It runs smoothly on vista, scans during the install, and installs the updates during the install as well. Doesn't hog all the resources like other security centers.
Cons: First off, it's a resource hog. During scans and updates, I couldn't use my computer without programs freezing up. I had this on both of my computers for nearly 8 months without it detecting a virus or anything other then gamespy arcade and it wouldn't even quarantine that. The scan times are extremely long with poor detection rate. I managed to grab some activeX nasties and it didn't catch one of them unlike my current Av/Spyware. On vista, none of the components would be recognized as being active at times according to the windows security center and I would restart my computer and nothing then I'd shut everything off then close the window and have to load it back up and see the same old drab Mcafee loading scree then re-enable everything. Restarting my computer didn't work most of the time, oh and it gets better when I was trying to install the Vista Service pack 1 I had to uninstall this program to get it to work. I tried 5-7 times to get that to work before uninstalling this program. The price is pretty high as well, 40 dollars for this program isn't worth it.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008
Cons: but is not compatible or does not install when there are other antivirus softwares
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008
"Good protection and don't take much space."
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008
Pros: Good interface.
Cons: Detection is mediocre.
Uses much CPU and RAM.
Protection is weak.
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