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McAfee Internet Security 2013 Review: Proficient antimalware, super-quick installation |
January 28, 2013
McAfee Internet Security 2013 ($40 for one year of protection on up to 3computers, as of 12/19/12) didn’t manage top marks in our security suite tests,but it’s still a fairly proficient antimalware program that will keep you relativelywell-protected. This security suite, which boasts a simple user interface anda super quick installation process, scans your system quickly and efficiently.However, McAfee’s uninspired design and average performance makes it a lessattractive choice compared to its competition.
In our real-world attack test, McAfee was able to completely block 94.4 percentof attacks. Unfortunately, this means that it did let through 5.6 percent ofattacks, allowing our test system to get infected. This test indicates how well aproduct will be able to block brand new malware attacks as it encounters themin the wild—and of the nine security suites we tested, only two let such a largepercentage through.
That said, McAfee was competent at cleaning up malware infections once theywere already on the system. In our system cleanup test, the program detectedand disabled 100 percent of infections, and fully cleaned up 70 percent ofinfections. Five of the nine security suites we tested performed better thanMcAfee in this test, completely cleaning up at least 80 percent of infections.
McAfee had an excellent false positive percentage: It didn't flag a single safe file(out of over 250,000 files) as malicious. It also did a very good job at detectingknown baddies: in our malware “zoo” detection test, it managed to detect 99.9percent of known malware samples.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025955/mcafee-internet-security-2013-review-proficient-antimalware-super-quick-installation.html
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