McAfee virus scan and firewall £24.99

Adrocks

Just got an email off McAfee and they wanted £44.99 for a years subscription. My Dell already has this software but if the above includes a years subscription its a good deal. Does anyone else think this is the same product? The description is not clear. I know a lot of people will be running out of protection about now.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00067HERE/qid=1107449389/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/202-2914427-4619841

Cheers

Searcher2

I don't know.... but on a related subject I popped into my local Staples this week and they were selling off all over their Norton 2004 software at half price e.g. Norton Antivirus 2004 for £20 and Norton Antivirus Professional 2004 for £25 (Professional includes licences for 2 PC's and extra features). Was tempted myself to get one of them for when my current licence runs out in the summer. They had other Norton software as well - but obviously don't know if this being done nationwide

mcgi6ah2

Norton is an awful resource hog though. I got rid of Norton and got McAffee recently. Its a massive improvement. You can buy 5 user licences pretty cheaply on eBay which works out about £8/machine I think.

imloobyloo

pcworld are selling in store a package for 30.00, was 60.00.
includes firewall 2005, norton system works which includes antivirus 2005. i bought mine at weekend i dont know how long the offer is on.

randomboy68

Or you could get Anti-Virus and firewall software completely free. I use AVG http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ for antivirus and Sygate https://www.sygate.com as my firewall.

Completely free, and AVG has free updates as well.

Bargain!

GlasWolf

Remember that there are free alternatives to the commercial packages like Norton, McAfee etc. I use AVG AntiVirus and Kerio Personal Firewall, there's also Zone Alarm and no doubt a few others. Not quite as user-friendly as Norton, but if you're reasonably computer-literate then they should be fine.

Heh, randomboy, you obviously type faster than me.

Clairog

Sorry if this is the wrong place but some of you sound like you know what your talking about and I definetly don't!!!
I had Macaffee on my laptop but got a wireless router and had to take macaffee off. I had downloaded it but it wouldn't let router work so I had to delete (not impressed) Belkin people said it should work ok if I got another copy (won't download again - will wait patiently for a cd) as belkin router would already be on. Does anyone know if this is true? Maybe it would be worth getting this macaffee deal. I tried AVG and again belkin router woudn't work:( but maybe thats doen to my lack of skill.
Any advice on what to go for would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Claire:)

GlasWolf

It sounds a bit like the firewall is blocking the ports necessary to establish the wireless connection. I don't have any experience of McAfee though... have you tried disabling it rather than uninstalling it to see if it works?

timmo44

I got the PC World package the other day with Systemworks and Personal Firewall (both 2005) for £29.99. Systemworks includes the full antivirus software and other bits to tidy up your system and test your hardware etc. As you say, the price paid was less than Norton/Symantec want to resubscribe to the old software.

Zonealarm seems a perfectly acceptable free firewall to me so I'll be sticking Personal Firewall onto Ebay to hopefully recoup some loose change.

royalsteve

Clairog wrote:

Sorry if this is the wrong place but some of you sound like you know what your talking about and I definetly don't!!!
I had Macaffee on my laptop but got a wireless router and had to take macaffee off. I had downloaded it but it wouldn't let router work so I had to delete (not impressed) Belkin people said it should work ok if I got another copy (won't download again - will wait patiently for a cd) as belkin router would already be on. Does anyone know if this is true? Maybe it would be worth getting this macaffee deal. I tried AVG and again belkin router woudn't work:( but maybe thats doen to my lack of skill.
Any advice on what to go for would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Claire:)

this is why i would not recommend Mcaffee...is it a virus...no its probably the worst commercial pile of tripe ever....sure i agree that nortons is a resource hugger but its MILES better than mcafee.....

Uninstall both an see the difference....uninstall nortons and it does it relatively cleanly...unistall mcafee at your peril.....like a dog with diahorrea.

I used spamkiller once for a couple of weeks and it was utter garbage.....i also used their antivirus and uninstalled it....it screwed up my pc build and i had to reinstall windows...as it was quicker than unpicking the mess!

avg antivirus and sygate firewall are both good.....esp if you have a low spec pc

go to https://www.download.com and you can download a whole variety of things......read the reviews first but that some of them with a pinch of salt...some seem to be written by people with a grudge ie a competitor

loafer_2

Adrocks wrote:

Just got an email off McAfee and they wanted £44.99 for a years subscription. My Dell already has this software but if the above includes a years subscription its a good deal. Does anyone else think this is the same product? The description is not clear. I know a lot of people will be running out of protection about now.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00067HERE/qid=1107449389/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/202-2914427-4619841

Cheers

It may actually be newer than the one on your Dell. Good spot the Virus scanner and the firewall are here for £60 :eek: http://uk.mcafee.com/root/bundles.asp

Good spot!