There's a straightforward parental controls module too, which can enforce online time limits and safe surfing based on WebAdvisor site categories. The suite can also regularly check whether Windows and your installed applications need updating, and if you're playing a game in full-screen mode then the software will automatically detect that and keep out of the way.
Naturally, you get real-time and on-demand malware scanning, plus web protection with McAfee's WebAdvisor browser plugin, and a custom firewall. There's also no built-in ransomware protection, although to be fair McAfee does offer a free standalone anti-ransomware tool. You'll look in vain for things like a secure browser, a recovery environment or configurable webcam protection. For one thing, McAfee was never a product that aspired to match every feature of its rivals, and it clearly still doesn't. It's a drastic turnaround all right - yet once you start interacting with the suite, what's chiefly surprising is how familiar it all feels, and I don't necessarily mean that as a compliment. AV-Test confirmed that, of all the suites in its most recent report, McAfee had one of the lowest impacts on web browsing speed, and across all performance tests it ended up with a nippy performance score of 92%. Last year, AV-Comparatives ranked McAfee Internet Security as "mediocre" for launching apps, and merely "fast" for web browsing in the latest test, those ratings have been upgraded to "fast" and "very fast" respectively. The good news doesn't stop there, either, as performance has been enhanced too. This isn't a case of an excessively strict engine catching all types of malware through sheer trigger-happiness, either: with an overall false-positive rate of 0.4%, McAfee confidently outshone the likes of Bitdefender, Norton and Trend Micro. So remarkable is McAfee's rise that we'd be tempted to put it down to a statistical blip, but the results were confirmed across several months by two independent testing labs, with both AV-Comparatives and AV-Test reporting 100% protection rates against threats both old and new.
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