You may purchase it separately from your computer, but it may already be included when you purchase your computer.
If you’ve used it, you know, when you start your computer, you’ll suddenly see something like “McAfee protect your computer now” or “McAfee’s computer is in a dangerous state.” Hence, it’s a seemingly suspicious virus.
McAfee Features
McAfee is security software with many attractive features. The main functions are introduced below.
Anti-Virus / Spyware Function
Virus spyware is a function that protects the devices used from various viruses that can occur in daily life. Discovers and removes viruses and spyware that have been hidden or infected in the device.
Email Countermeasure Function.
It automatically identifies junk and dangerous emails and prevents them from being delivered to your inbox. You can customize it to suit you, such as setting the judgment level of junk mail. This is a must-have feature, as email virus infections are increasing these days.
Anti-Phishing Function
It checks the safety of the site accessed from the URL described in the email and warns you on the alert screen if it is dangerous. You can rest assured that it will protect you from “phishing scams” that try to steal your personal information under the guise of a financial institution.
Firewall Function
It is a function that blocks access from dangerous sites and protects devices from being hijacked or attacked by hackers.
What is McAfee’s Reputation?
As a good word of mouth of McAfee, there were many opinions that it was “cheaper than other companies.” However, many voices were saying that the movement was heavy. Also, in the unlikely event that something goes wrong, you will have to contact the support center, but it seems that the support centre’s reputation is not very good. There are many bad reviews about the quality of support, such as
“The support centre’s phone charges were three times higher than usual.”
Service Contents
“Makafi Security Service” is a service that evaluates the safety of web pages, a service that supports secure connection to Wi-Fi and personal information on the dark web, as well as measures against viruses, spyware, hackers, etc. It is a comprehensive security service with various services, such as a service to check if it is bought or sold.
Reasons for Blocking MacAfee Subscription
Here is the reason for unsubscribe from mcafee software:
1. The software itself and virus definition files (files that record the characteristics of viruses) are automatically updated to the latest state, so it is a troublesome package version to update every year (products sold at home appliance mass retailers, etc.) You can use it with ease that is not available.
2. An error in McAfee’s virus definition file released led to the company’s antivirus products for individual users and businesses. It was revealed that there was a problem with misidentifying multiple applications, including Microsoft Excel, stored on the user’s PC like a virus called “W95 / CTX”.
3. Around 1 pm Pacific Standard Time, an unusual number of reports of W95 / CTX infections found in the user’s environment began to gather. Depending on its set, misidentified files may be deleted or quarantined.
4. The quarantined file will be renamed and moved to another folder. Some of McAfee’s antivirus software misidentified as viruses included Microsoft Office components such as Excel.exe and Graph.exe, and AdobeUpdateManager.exe. AdobeUpdateManager is an application that is installed with Adobe products and handles software updates.
5. Problems have been reported from about 100 locations, both individuals and businesses. McAfee, the world’s second-largest antivirus software vendor, has rushed to address this issue. Definition files for individual users were automatically reverted to the old ones around 2:30 pm, and an update was distributed to corporate users an hour later.
6. Only desktop antivirus software was affected by this issue, not McAfee’s network-level products that scan email.
7. False recognition occurred only when virus scanning was performed manually or when scheduled scanning was performed, but it did not occur during idle or background scanning.
8. The contents that arouse anxiety, such as the computer being infected with a virus, are displayed. The name of the browser that allowed the notification is displayed. Domains unrelated to the warning are displayed.
9. If you allow the notification, you will receive the message immediately. Some sites will notify you every minute. If you see a message on your screen that incites anxiety or forces you to take some action, it may be a fake notification.
Such problems with security software are called false positives and can sometimes occur. McAfee urgently releases virus definition files every three months due to false-positive problems. This issue was caused by the virus definition file “4715,” released as part of the company’s daily update. In addition, the urgent definition file “4716” was released.
