I was somewhat paranoid at first, as I had read a couple horror stories about people trying to do that and running into trouble. After comparing LiveSafe with Total Protection (nearly identical) I purchased McAfee Total Protection for 3 devices. The cost of renewal for McAfee LiveSafe was almost double that of last year. Their support told me to look under their Privacy information where I found a link which might get that to happen but it seemed to imply that they were only doing this for European customers. The final tidbit is to actually remove my McAfee account and personal info completely. Why couldn't their support have told me this, or better yet, given me that installer? After more talking with their tech support, they were able to get me a refund (which did arrive reasonably promptly) and the support person was able to remove my credit card information from my account. I had saved the original installer from when I first purchased Total Protection, and it turns out that the 1st thing that it does is remove any McAfee software that it finds. This is by far the worst software that I have ever dealt with.Īnother update: The saga is almost over, months later. I can't find a way to remove it from my account or to delete my account with them. Well, borrowed it and won't give it back. And McAfee has stolen my credit card info. I'll continue to search for ways to get rid of it. The installer program it installed is incompatible with the OS and should never have been installed. It has installed itself in a way that I cannot remove.

I never do reviews of products, but this is so bad and such a pain that I want to spare others.Īn update since it is worse than I thought.

And, no, it is not a money back guarantee. Tech support's solution is to reimage to a new OS and download their new version.

Now 3 months in, the weekly virus scan slows the system so much that I am forced to reboot, and I'm not even being really protected since the updates are consistently failing. I had noticed that this product was significantly slower than Norton's right away after install, but kept going since this was significantly less expensive.

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