Mcafee virus scan 2010

"Mcafee virus scan 2010 Compatible Devices Review of McAfee VirusScan Plus 2010: McAfee VirusScan is still one of the more popular Antivirus programs, however, its Performance & Effectiveness over recent years has been questionable - let's see if the 2010 version has any noticeable improvements over previous versions. 1) Installation: McAfee VirusScan 2010 installs in just over 3 minutes (3 minutes and 4 seconds), and requires no reboots after installation before using the computer. New this year, McAfee 2010 has a Pre-Scan that takes about 1 minute to complete. This can be a good feature to ensure a trouble-free installation, however, McAfee should offer users an option to skip the scan if they don't wish to scan their computer. Yes, it's only 1 minute, but... (See Installation Time Comparison Graph)2) Features & Ease of Use:   McAfee 2010's program interface is almost exactly the same as last year's version - McAfee 2009. Like last year there is still a Basic Menu and an Advanced Menu. However, there is almost no difference between these 2 except that Advanced mode gives the user the ability to ""Restore"" files from Quarantine that may have been mistakenly deleted by McAfee. With only this minor difference McAfee could do away with these 2 different modes - even though a few more options are given in Advanced mode. In addition to Virus & Spyware protection that McAfee provides, it also has a two-way Firewall and provides Anti-Phishing protection - both of which aren't seen in your standard Antivirus package. McAfee has several additional tools included such as McAfee QuickClean (which cleans temporary files, old registry keys, etc), Disk Defragmenter (which is actually a Windows program that McAfee ""borrows""), and Task Scheduler. Also, included in VirusScan is McAfee SiteAdvisor which lets you know if a website is safe or not when you do a web search on Google or another search engine (currently works with IE but not FireFox browser). Overall, McAfee provides a good feature set (although it could use better Logs and more user information) and a simple to use interface, but there are few improvements over last year, and in the ultra-competitive Antivirus market no progress is a bad thing - hence the slightly lower marks this year. New Features:     �McAfee Active Protection - provides immediate protection againstmalicious threats to your PC, rather than waiting hours fortraditional techniques.     �Battery Mode - decreases power consumption by delaying powerintensive operations until your laptop is plugged in. Features Checklist: Anti-Spyware Anti-Rootkit Bot Protection Email Scanning IM Protection Trojan Protection Worm Protection Anti-Phishing Two-way Firewall 3) Virus Scanner:   McAfee has 3 scanning options: Quick Scan, Full Scan, and Custom Scan (called ""Let Me Choose""). McAfee 2010 performed a Quick Scan in a respectable 3 minutes and 37 seconds. Further testing found McAfee's Virus Scanner to scan at a pace of 12.8 MB/s, which translates into scanning 50GB of used hard-drive space in almost 67 minutes. This places McAfee 2010 as the slowest scanning Antivirus program we tested - taking almost double as long as the 2 quickest scanning programs: Avast and Norton 2010. (See Scan Time Comparison Graph)Updates: McAfee 2010 provides only 1 update per day (1.3 to be precise). This is still one of the fewest virus-definition updates of any major Antivirus program - by comparison Norton provides over 200 updates per day. A slow virus scanner coupled with some of the fewest updates in the industry leaves us unimpressed with McAfee's virus scanner. (See Updates Per Day Comparison Graph)4) Performance Testing:   A good Antivirus program should not only prote"

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