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Total Protection does an adequate but not astonishing job. However, even for fans of the product, this isn’t really enough added value to justify auto-renewal costs versus buying a much cheaper key elsewhere when it’s time to renew. McAfee provides some auto-renewal bonuses, notably access to the company’s Safe Connect VPN service and a money-back protection guarantee. A one-year, three-device key for McAfee Total Protection 2021 currently costs £11.99 from Amazon, just over a third as much as the standard introductory price for a single device, let alone the auto-renewing subscription fee. However, as is often the case, the official price isn’t the same as the real price. Renewals are still significantly more expensive than the first year’s subscription, though - more than double in the case of a ten device account. The company was recently the subject of a CMA ruling finding its auto-renewal practices to be unfair, and it now more clearly highlights that its subscriptions auto-renew at a higher price and makes it easier to opt out. There was a noticeable slowdown when loading websites compared to Microsoft Defender and while McAfee’s impact on software installation times was a little less pronounced than Defenders’, it was still significant compared to most rivals.Ī one device, one year Total Protection account costs £29.99 for the first year and renews at £59.99 when bought from the McAfee website. That’s only slightly less accurate than Microsoft Defender.ĪV-Test’s performance data from the same period highlights a couple of minor impacts on system performance and responsiveness, however. McAfee's engine breezed through the reference malware sample set in two successive months, but only protected against all threats in August’s real-world test in July, like a number of its rivals, it was caught out by a couple of malware exposures, but still blocked 99.3% of threats, with a single false positive. In AV Comparatives’ most recent real-world protection test, it blocked 99.7% of malware, in common with most of its rivals, with 2 false positive identifications of legitimate software.Īnd it defended against 100% of malware in three of AV-Tests most recent four rounds of testing. In SE Labs’ latest home antivirus test, McAfee got a 100% total protection rating, meaning that it blocked all malicious software and didn’t falsely identify any benign programs as malicious or potentially unwanted. Family tier subscriptions include the Safe Family parental control and tracking toolkit. You also get a copy of the McAfee True Key password manager thrown in for free, but you can do better with rivals such as Bitwarden.