Save money on McAfee

Richardd300

Yesterday I had a warning that my McAfee protection subscription was due for renewal. It is total protection allowing installation on 3 computers. When I pressed “renew now” it told me it would cost £59 for the next year! Go on the McAfee web site and it offers the same protection for £29.37! So I bought it and it downloaded fine. Installation is a bit protracted, because it sees that your PC already has a version installed so it strips that out and downloads the new one. I have also applied it to my laptop under the 3 computer protection. The saving is nearly £30, so the moral is don’t re-subscribe, load a new copy.


I use your money saving site and have saved £££££ so I just thought I’d let you know the above as they both represent good savings.

Cheers

DatabaseError

...or you could have bought the excellent Kaspersky for around £14...or used one of the free alternatives...or asked me..I'd have sold you my mcafee licence -no use to me! (though I'm probably not allowed to sell it!)

[Deleted User]

"Save money on McAfee"

Don't buy it!

Richardd300

Two replies, first DatabaseError.
I don't use free alternatives and would suggest knowone else does. You get what you pay for!
Secondly, anewhope.
Why not, McAfee is an excellent too and having been "raided" some time ago I have confidence in McAfee, it's saved me ehen other "cheapies" didn't.

You get owt for nowt in this world.

DatabaseError

Richardd300 wrote: »

Two replies, first DatabaseError.
I don't use free alternatives and would suggest knowone else does. You get what you pay for!
Secondly, anewhope.
Why not, McAfee is an excellent too and having been "raided" some time ago I have confidence in McAfee, it's saved me ehen other "cheapies" didn't.
You get owt for nowt in this world.

You, Sir, are the exception which proves the rule of evolution...I thank you for that! - ninja-text to avoid offence - hopefully
Currently I am running 5 PCs. 4 of which have free antivirus solutions, the 5th (mine) is using the kaspersky technical preview for windows 7 (free for now).
2 days ago I created a thread on here laughing at my brother in law and his horrendous virus/malware infection...he was using a paid for version of Norton 360, he may as well have been using a diarylea cheese slice.
His infection was cured using free products, and he now has free antivirus/malware solutions on his PC...and I expect no more trouble.

I have a copy of mcafee (free from my isp)...but, as they say, once bitten - twice shy, I have used it in the distant past, and it has let me down.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

This is my first year of McAfee and the 2009 version runs well on my 6 year old machine.

I bought it because of the offer of the full Security Center for the price I'd been paying for just my AV beforehand.

I presume the OP has the same, with the AV, firewall, siteadvisor, anti-apam and Parental Controls.

GaryS

McAfee is not as bad a Norton, and is usually in the top 5 AV suites when reviewed by various magazines.
I do use McAfee, on 3 PCs because my isp O2 provide a free 3-licence copy for as long as I use their service.
None of these 3 PCs have been infected or compromised in any way.
On the other 3 Pcs in the house I use a paid subscription from Kaspersky IS 2009.

This is after using CA Internet Suite for over 6 years without any problems whatsoever.
CA was ditched after the 2009 installation severly messed up a laptop.