McAfee+ Premiumis an easy-to-use security suite with some very welcome features.
McAfee+ Premium: Pricing
McAfee+ Premium is available in two flavors.
Its priced at $49.99 in year one, $149.99 on renewal.
McAfee scores well with the big testing labs right now.
Its a little more expensive at $69.99 in year one, $169.99 on renewal.
Prices start at $89.99 in year one, $199.99 on renewal.
But if you dont need unlimited devices then you might save a little money elsewhere.
Some important features require extra setup steps before theyre working properly.
McAfee+ Premium: Protection
McAfee currently has great protection results in independent testing.
We began our own tests by attempting to access 50 brand new phishing sites, and logging what happened.
McAfee scores well with the big testing labs right now.
McAfee WebAdvisor blocked a well below average 32%.
Theres a second problem.
McAfee WebAdvisor is a web app extension, which means it cant protect non-standard browsers or other apps.
McAfee didn’t detect most of our test phishing sites.
Moving to ourmalwaretest, we tried downloading dangerous files from 50 malicious sites.
Finally, we matched McAfee against our own customransomwaresimulator.
McAfee got off to a great start, immediately killing the threat before it could touch a single file.
McAfee scans downloads as they’re saved to your device.
Thats not bad, but others have done better.
TheVPNis built into the McAfee+ app, making it very convenient to access.
(Well, thats the idea.
During our review, the VPN once hung on Connecting for several minutes.
McAfees VPN has a marginally above average choice of 48 countries.
(Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Peru.)
Connection times could be slow on our test Windows system, sometimes ten seconds or more.
If youre used to faster services (ExpressVPNtypically takes less than a second), that can become frustrating.
McAfee VPN has very few configs.
Testing revealed an issue with the Safe Reconnect kill switch.
McAfee sells Secure Connect VPN for its privacy and security, and doesnt mention unblocking streaming sites at all.
We ran unblocking tests for Netflix and a number of other streaming sites anyway, but with poor results.
We imported existing logins from Dashlane without any issues.
But the app cant use this information to fill forms, unlike Dashlane and other top password managers.
In terms of the password management basics, though, True Key works reasonably well.
Usernames and passwords are captured automatically as you enter them.
When youre creating an account, it can generate and enter a secure password in a couple of clicks.
Theres not much in the way of advanced functionality.
True Key does a great job of protecting your account with its excellent two factor authentication support.
Overall, True Key is a basic but decent tool which handles simple login tasks with ease.
(If youre unsure and would like to try before you buy, download True Keys Freemium version.
Thats a clever idea, but has a few problems.
The first is that you might not want to give McAfee permission to regularly read your Inbox.
The second is that OAC can only scan inboxes forMicrosoft,Googleor Yahoo email accounts.
If you use another service, Online Account Cleanup wont work.
The third issue is that you’re able to only choose one of these email addresses.
If you set up web accounts using more than one email, OAC wont be able to cover everything.
If these arent concerns for you, OAC works very well.
If youve 50 or more accounts to explore, then that could be intimidating.
McAfee Online Account Cleanup is an unusual service which could be very helpful for some users.
In other words: they might have our data, they might, but theres no way to help.
We cant judge Personal Data Cleanup on a single search, and you may get much better results.
Some products of this key in give the same advice to everyone, but McAfee is smarter than that.
Scanning your accounts can be surprisingly simple.
SPM organizes its recommendations into four sensibly-chosen categories.
SPM gave us some useful advice.
If theres a problem here its that SPM often has the most basic privacy parameters only.
As usual with this kind of service, the information you get may not be very helpful.
If youd like data breach monitoring anyway, there are similar (and maybe better) services around.
Norton makes it easier to add some items, too.
Norton doesnt require verification, so it works with any number.
McAfee does have some welcome advantages, though.
Thats useful, but it doesnt do much else.
Bitdefender and Nortons suites have far more capable firewalls.
McAfee File Shredder securely wipes files containing confidential data to check that they cant be recovered.
File Shredder is convenient to use.
It works as advertised, but theres nothing here that you cant do elsewhere.
(A one year TunnelBear account costs $59.88 all on its own.)
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