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Techmaster Concierge (Gold Service for $179.99 for one PC or Mac plus up to four connected devices, Platinum Service for $209.95 for two PCs or Macs plus up to four connected devices) for expert help dealing with viruses and malware, as well as software installation, software configuration, and operating system issues.Mobile Security (Starter: free, Standard: $29.99/year, Plus: $79.99/year), which includes varying levels of Android-specific antivirus and anti-theft protections and other storage and battery optimization tools.WebAdvisor (free), which protects your web browsing from malware and phishing attempts.Security Scan Plus (free), which identifies antivirus, privacy, and connection vulnerabilities.Safe Family ($7.99/month, $49.99/year), which provides parental controls and website and search filtering.Safe Connect VPN ($7.99/month, $19.99/$47.99 annually) to ensure safe e-commerce and banking, as well as private browsing.However, the Mac edition lacks certification. This review was originally published in September 2019. One subscription gives you unlimited licenses to protect all your Macs with McAfee AntiVirus Plus, as well as your Windows, Android, and iOS devices. But anyone with just one or a few Macs to protect should check out Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac, our top Mac antivirus pick. The best part of McAfee AntiVirus Plus is its 10-device license, which makes it worth looking at for large families. McAfee AntiVirus Plus' lack of important special features, and lack of support for Safari, make other antivirus options better for Mac users.

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Also, while its passive performance hit is negligible, McAfee's system impact during a full scan (which takes forever) could slow you down when you're trying to work. The third-party labs we regularly rely on have not recently tested McAfee's Mac malware-detection performance, so we cannot definitively recommend McAfee for Mac. McAfee AntiVirus Plus (for Mac) review: Bottom line The toll-free number for Home & Home Office Support in the U.S. Or you can go to McAfee's global contact page, select Support and choose your country from the drop-down bar. Then, click Technical Assistance, select Mac, and click Chat or Phone.

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MORE: How to Choose the Antivirus Software That's Right for Youįor technical support, click Help in the Menu Bar, select 'Mcafee Services and Support,' and then scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click Contact Support. (Firefox didn't get it automatically, and there isn't a version for Safari.) SiteAdvisor warns you of possibly malicious web pages and suspicious search results and also scans downloads for threats.

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Both its menu-bar icon and its home window show your system's status, but if you want to start a scan, you'll need to click up to three times, which is three times as many clicks as it should take.ĭuring installation, the software will install the SiteAdvisor web plug-in in Chrome. McAfee AntiVirus Plus makes you click around more than you should to perform simple tasks. McAfee AntiVirus Plus (for Mac): Interface Still, that's less than half of Sophos' full-scan completion time of 2:56, but much longer than Malwarebytes' blink-and-you-miss-it full-scan time of 16 seconds. On average, McAfee's full scans took 1 hour and 17 minutes, so you'd spend a while waiting to notice said slowdown. (McAfee AntiVirus Plus doesn't offer a quick scan for Macs.) Most of the programs got a two-digit performance slowdown - from Norton at 13% to Kaspersky at 41% - and only Sophos (7%) had a one-digit bump. That's the biggest performance slowdown during a full scan that we saw. During a McAfee full-system scan, the VLOOKUP test finished in 5 minutes and 15 seconds, signifying a performance dip of 47%.