McAfee AntiVirus Protection 2022 | 1 PC (Windows)| Antivirus Protection, Internet Security Software | 1 Year Subscription | Download Code
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I'm not sure what is going on with all the negative reviews posted on this product, claiming bogus codes and 3rd-party installers, so this is just a confirmation that all is working as intended:\n1. Buy the product\n2. Wait for a confirmation email from AMAZON that your order has processed -- that email will also include your Activation Code and the McAfee website to get your product installed (or extend the expiration date, as in my case)\n3. If you have ANY OTHER ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE installed (i.e. NOT McAfee), use your program-uninstaller to deactivate and remove it, then re-boot your PC, PRIOR TO STARTING the McAfee activation process. I suspect many of the negative reviews stem from people skipping this -- any legitimate anti-virus program will have built-in security to stop almost all other programs from just uninstalling it, so YOU have to do it (unless it is McAfee to begin with -- their website knows how to uninstall THEIR own software)\n4. Let McAfee install, period. You're done and have basic anti-virus protection.\n5. If you want to supplement your protection with an additional FREE program, I'd personally recommend the products from Advanced SystemCare. They have paid versions of all their products, but they also offer FREE versions of all of them as well. And these work alongside McAfee quite nicely, I've found. And no, I do not work for or benefit in any way from Advanced SystemCare for stating this -- just came across their products years ago and have used them ever since.\n6. After and during the installation of McAfee, it will ask you to set up Auto-renew. The 'pro' is that this gets you FREE support in the unlikely event your PC does get a Virus -- McAfee will work with you to get it removed, at no additional cost to you. The 'con' is that this sets you up for a RIDICULOUS renewal charge ($40 this year) when your subscription is 30 days away from expiration. If like me, you forget about this con and get charged, you can get a refund within 60 days, so it's not a huge deal. And you'll want free support if you DO get a virus -- happened to me about 6 years ago and was a nightmare, but professionals can diagnose and fix it pretty easily.\n7. NEVER take a renewal-price from McAfee directly -- they're a company, and like all companies, they want to maximize profits. So they're betting on 'hooking' you with any easy auto-renewal, charging you an outrageous fee ($40 currently), and hoping you're too lazy to want to challenge any of it. Get your refund, then shop the web, and find the exact same product (from Amazon for JUST $5, in my case), and smile :)"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "After reading some of the reviews I was actually a little nervous about this purchase. My computer came with a 3 month trial of McAfee with a renew price of $60. Well, that is awful. Thankfully Amazon had a much better rate for a year of protection but there were a few reviews with horror stories relating to the installation of the software. Now again, I had already been running McAfee on my computer but I had zero issues with the installation and now, about 15minutes after purchasing it, I have another year of McAfee up and running. For what it's worth, my guess is most of the issues people had stemmed from, if they were previously using a different brand of anti-virus, they didn't manually uninstall it prior to attempting to install McAfee. If you were already running McAfee, the installation removes the old version automatically. I hope that helps. Good luck!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Dear McAfee, take your auto renewal and shove it up your server farm. Why is a renewal 3 times the price of the product?'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I got scammed, do not purchase. I got an error code that my code was redeemed but they were unable to download it to my computer. I called the number provided only to have someone tell me my computer was filled with viruses and malware and that needed to be fixed first. The operator proceeded to tell me about how much it will cost to have them do it for me. Amazon- I want a refund!!!!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I have a powerful fast gaming desktop. If I had to replace it now it would cost 2K+, not to mention lost or stolen files and my time. McAfee Antivirus has been protecting it since it was new. Whether renewing current protection or a new install it is easy, my wife does it no problem. The gravy deal is that it's crazy cheap here at Amazon. I speak from decades of experience loading Windows and different antivirus programs."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I bought this in February of this year for my computer and had it run along with my other antivirus programs. But a week ago, it started to mess up my internet with it's firewall. I tried to turn the firewall off, but it still messed my ethernet up and I couldn't turn the program off completely at all. It wasn't an option which was confusing to me, so I decided to completely uninstall it and my ethernet connection finally started to let me use the internet again. If any of you are wondering, I did turn off Wi-Fi to see if it was one of those sources but it didn't do me any favors and I had to get my fathers help. He told me to turn off my antivirus firewalls and I did for all of them, but uninstalling McAfee and keeping the other programs firewalls on worked perfectly. It's a great product, but I am not using it again because I like my internet, thank you very much."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I had no problem downloading and installing this product. I've used McAfee protection for a few years now without incident. Amazon price is more than half off of what the McAfee 'sale' price is when you go to the McAfee website, so I like the convenience and value that Amazon offers. I recommend that you wait until you only have a day or two left on your subscription because your renewal status starts the day that you install the new version. So, if you still have 10 days left on your existing version and install the new version you will lose those 10 days of your old subscription/version."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This product just runs in the background 24-7 and does the job on my HP 15-da0032. Superior to N@rtn in that regard which is why I switched two years ago trying it on the new PC that came with it. I will do a manual purge of cookies, etc so from that aspect not as self-managing...but also does not over warn me, slow down, or interfere with complex searches out of the norm as part of my job. I like the safe search protection/notification so is not an iron fist, rather allows or disallows. Never had a virus or major computer slowdown using this product. I like the price and flexibility of McAfee should I decide to upgrade if my needs change. For now, perfect product for my current needs on one device.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This antivirus protection was quick and easy to install plus was a great price. The only negative was that it did not extend my existing expiration date of the previous same antivirus protection but cutoff the existing and remaining days of the initial protection. I wrongly assumed the new would extend the expiration date of the existing antivirus protection.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I like the McAfee anti-virus alot. My problem is like all antivirus programs, they give you a great introductory price then when it is time to renew, they want and arm and a leg and your first born baby. So I bought this because of the price thinking I could just use product key to renew but you can't. You have to do a complete uninstall, then reinstall to make it work."}]