Is McAfee 2021 worthy of a try in the current year?
The information in this blog has been referenced from a detailed review article published by tech writer Brian Nadel for tomsguide.com.
Nadel’s review clearly indicates that McAfee (2021) has lived up to its reputation of being a standard McAfee product at a low cost. However, when we are speaking about providing total security, McAfee is still far behind many reliable antiviruses such as Norton and Kaspersky.
However, it should be stated that McAfee has regained more reputation in recent years than it has ever done in its tenure. Lately, the primary importance has been given to serving multiple devices on multiple consoles, but, nowadays, McAfee gives more to the user than just merely giving the minimum protection. McAfee offers a decent amount of protection against malwares, and features that have been recently included in the McAfee package are VPN (virtual private network) feature, identity theft protection, and a sophisticated user-interface.
However, the demerit side of things has revealed that McAfee eats up a lot of system space during custom or full scan and does not have high-tech security features such as LifeLock Identity Alert System, which are found in its competitors. McAfee also does not protect the user against Webcam attacks, which is a huge demerit and is still lacking the presence of a secure browser in the list of its features.
The reviews which are available on the internet clearly reveals that the likes of Bitdefender, Kaspersky, and Norton far exceed the capabilities of McAfee and are often considered to be the best antiviruses present in the cybersecurity industry with comprehensive malware detection and removal and fewer resources requirement.
We can also add the demerit that Virtual Private Network (VPNs), identity theft protection, and cash-back guarantee are only available to those who enable their McAfee subscription to get automatically renewed. In short words, McAfee will not let you have its features if you are not profiting the company.
We can summarize the merits and demerits of McAfee antivirus using the following subsection
Advantages of McAfee Antivirus
1) Without-cap- Virtual Private Network covering.
2) Identity theft protection.
3) Web Security along with newly added feature which ensures protection against tech-support fraudsters.
4) Low-cost.
5) Seamless user-interface.
6) System optimizer.
7) Ransomware rollback.
8) Parental controls.
9) Mobile protection.
10) Firewall.
11) File shredder.
Disadvantages of McAfee Antivirus
1) Takes up a lot of system resources during scans.
2) Lack of Webcam protection.
3) Lack of specialized browser for safe surfing.
4) On the instance of turning off auto-renewal, some useful features of McAfee antivirus get automatically turned off.
5) No virtual keyboard.
6) There is a lack of backup software.
Conclusion
McAfee has upgraded some of its characteristics but is still far behind the likes of Kaspersky, Norton, and Bitdefender. However, McAfee is still quite effective in providing basic protection and comes at a low-cost.
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