Mcafee Licence fee

[Deleted User]

I recently bought a laptop with a 1 month's free trial of Mcafee internet security. However, I now received an email asking me to pay £42 to renew my licence. I'm sure I have seen Mcafee a lot cheaper to buy. Is £42 a fair charge. I'm wondering whether to install Norton instead. Any advise please would be appreciated.

macman

Don't install either, they are both very poor and resource-hogging AV programs. Install Avira (free) or Kaspersky (paid for but currently free if you use Barclays online banking).
PS: just checked and Mcafee is £30 if you buy it direct off their website. What does that tell you about their marketing policies?

Money_Grabber13579

macman wrote: »

Don't install either, they are both very poor and resource-hogging AV programs. Install Avira (free) or Kaspersky (paid for but currently free if you use Barclays online banking).
PS: just checked and Mcafee is £30 if you buy it direct off their website. What does that tell you about their marketing policies?

Norton is not the resource hog it used to be. I've got the Norton Internet Security 2009, which I got off Amazon for £25 for a 3 user edition! And it uses less than 10MB of memory in my case. You wouldn't notice it running in the background, whereas I found when I used Avira that it slowed down my computer much more. In any case, get rid of McAfee!

[Deleted User]

Thanks Macman for your reply. I'm not happy with Mcafee, and I thought that their fee is outrageous. Would it be OK to uninstall Mcafee and install Kaspersky as you suggested? Should I install Kaspersky before I take mcafee off or doesn't it matter which way round I do it?

superscaper

[quote=[Deleted User];22439673]Thanks Macman for your reply. I'm not happy with Mcafee, and I thought that their fee is outrageous. Would it be OK to uninstall Mcafee and install Kaspersky as you suggested? Should I install Kaspersky before I take mcafee off or doesn't it matter which way round I do it?[/QUOTE]

Uninstall McAfee first. Also use their removal tool (available from here http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507) as standard uninstallation from the likes of McAfee and Norton can leave a lot of stuff behind. Then install your choice of Antivirus. Having 2 antivirus apps installed ican be hazardous as they will most likely conflict which is why you should uninstall first.

aliEnRIK

macman wrote: »

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PS: just checked and Mcafee is £30 if you buy it direct off their website. What does that tell you about their marketing policies?

Mcafee absolutely take the p*** with this. One woman only a few months back was given a quote of 75 quid! (So how do the 2 vary??)

macman

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Mcafee absolutely take the p*** with this. One woman only a few months back was given a quote of 75 quid! (So how do the 2 vary??)

I think that would probably give you a 3-PC licence RIK (big deal).

aliEnRIK

macman wrote: »

I think that would probably give you a 3-PC licence RIK (big deal).

I recall her saying it was JUST for her (Though its quite possible she got it wrong)

globalds

If you bank with HSBC you can get Macafee for free from a link on their internet banking site.
I bank with HSBC but chose to use Kaspersky
Cheapest I can find is this one
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_5&products_id=106051

Stolen from HotUKDeals

colin79666

You also get Mcafee free is you have o2 broadband

Marty999

I use Kaspersky myself, but Bullguard is worth considering at this amazing price.