is my mcfee expired?

cyberstar

I bought a PC which came with 1 month mcfee security. I got an email saying I need to renew it as the security will be expired on the specified date. Well, that time has come and when I open the program it still seems to be working as normal like before and there is no indication that the program is telling me its expired? Does anyone know?

superscaper

It's probably not updating, which is important but you are much much better off uninstalling it altogether and using something like AVG.

Donnie

Not AVG again(groan).

Marty999

From memory, I think you have to go to My Account on the McAfee website, and that will give you full details of your subscription. I removed McAfee from my Dell so I can't be totally sure now...

fudgem

Can I just ask, did you have any problems removing McAfee? I have a free trial on my new laptop but will be removing it when the trial ends

superscaper

Donnie wrote: »

Not AVG again(groan).

What's wrong with AVG, I'd been using McAfee for years absolutely free so I had no financial incentive to change but I decided to give it a go and found it was much better than McAfee for resources and it detected a genuine (not in quarantine, not a false positive) virus that was on my system that who know for how long McAfee had been missing.

gaming_guy

superscaper wrote: »

What's wrong with AVG, I'd been using McAfee for years absolutely free so I had no financial incentive to change but I decided to give it a go and found it was much better than McAfee for resources and it detected a genuine (not in quarantine, not a false positive) virus that was on my system that who know for how long McAfee had been missing.

i find AVG good as well. i have had a few problems with it recently. apart from that it has been brilliant

fudgem

superscaper wrote: »

What's wrong with AVG, I'd been using McAfee for years absolutely free so I had no financial incentive to change but I decided to give it a go and found it was much better than McAfee for resources and it detected a genuine (not in quarantine, not a false positive) virus that was on my system that who know for how long McAfee had been missing.

As far as I know, McAfee is only a paid for service, so if you've been using it free, were you getting any updates? I would think that may have been why the virus was missed

superscaper

fudgem wrote: »

As far as I know, McAfee is only a paid for service, so if you've been using it free, were you getting any updates? I would think that may have been why the virus was missed

I was using McAfee Enterprise under licence from my university so it was updating and is meant to be better than the home retail edition. So yes it was free, yes it was legal and yes it hadn't expired (was still receiving updates).

Marty999

fudgem wrote: »

Can I just ask, did you have any problems removing McAfee? I have a free trial on my new laptop but will be removing it when the trial ends

Fudgem - I used the official McAfee uninstall tool. This is a small download and made the process very quick and easy.

fudgem

Great Marty, I'll get that