McAfee Internet Security 2005 7.0 [Old Version]
![McAfee Internet Security 2005 7.0 [Old Version]](/Images/B0002T8812/medium.jpg) | Average Customer Rating: Recommend McAfee Internet Security helps safeguard personal data, prevent viruses, stop unauthorized computer access, filter spam from your inbox and block pop-up ads-all in one powerful, fully integrated package. Best of all, automatic updates ensure you always have the latest protection. Product details and pricing info |
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40 Customer Reviews Posted
- The reviews saved me!!!!
- I purchased this product beofe doing research since my subscription with Norton is close to expiring! That is another issue in itself! I am SOSOSOSOSO glad that I decided to read the reviews before opening the package. I am going to return it unopened and get Norton ( I think I better read those reviews first lol) THanks to all the people who reviewed this product and saved me a load of headaches!!!
- 2005-04-20, 3 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Predatorial Business Practices -- Redux
- I uninstalled McAfee from my system -- or rather tried to. I had to reinstall my operating system after things stopped working correctly immediately afterward. After that, I thought I was in the clear. NOPE! McAfee reared their ugly head to RENEW MY UNWANTED SUBSCRIPTION to the tune of $75. What are they willing to do about it? Well, they notified me right away that they had ALREADY charged my card (NOT BEFORE, mind you) and then when I called they "happily" submitted my order for a refund, which will take 3-5 business days. So, not only is McAfee making the Fed's overnight interest rate for about 5 days, but they overdrew my account. When pressed about the fact that I shouldn't have been charged in the first place, the customer service rep slowly read from a prompt (in broken English) that I should please be referring to the License Agreement. Nice.
I'll never buy McAfee again and I'll take just about every opportunity available to me to tell my story of McAfee's Predatorial Business Practices regarding my account.
Update as of June 2005:
McAfee charged my credit card YET AGAIN!!!! They had previously refunded my money and then conveniently "forgot" to turn off their "auto-renew" feature. Just how they can take my calls telling them that they had no right to take money out of my account without my permission and to please give it back ... only to do it all over again truly baffles me. I just don't understand these people. I wonder if McAfee even reads these reviews. If I got performance appraisals that were this awful, I would certainly quit my job. So there it is, McAfee: you're fired due to incompetence! Please pack your things and exit the software industry never to return! - 2005-04-19, 7 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Junk!
- I'm happily about to order my next computer and despite the other issues this old one has, McAfee Internet Security will be by far the most satisfying to finally be rid of. Bugs, bugs, bugs. And this isn't my first experience with it, I had it on another computer in the late 90s, and it was an even bigger headache then. My other computers were lucky enough to have Norton, including computers from work (I work in IT). Norton isn't perfect, but it's stable as granite compared to this piece of $#!&. For example, we have no need for Spamkiller, so I choose not to have it activated. Does it listen? No. We still have to get updates for it, even if that means wasting time before you can use the computer while it hogs the cpu to download something we told it we didn't want in the first place, not to mention constantly trying to change my mind, forever annoying, "SpamKiller: Disabled" messages --- IF ONLY!!! How many times have we had to restart the computer a few times for McAfee to pull itself together correctly and work, just like it was a few years ago on the other computer. Once the subscription expires, even the firewall de-activates. It's understandable not to expect updates once the subscription expires, but if the firewall needs no updates, McAfee's customers should be allowed to continue using it, WE ALREADY PAID FOR IT. Thank goodness for XP's built-in firewall or we would be up a creek until the new computer gets here, nice going McAfee.
Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never again McAfee! You've caused me enough headaches and I have no pity for you still charging good money for a beta product that should have been refined or at least made reasonably stable YEARS AGO. It borders on criminal IMO and would do the world a service if they would just go out of business altogether. Sorry, that's how I feel at this point.
Get Norton, get anything but this. - 2005-04-16, 6 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- The virus checking surpasses Norton's, the spam killer bites
- I just had to uninstall the spam killer because it was deleting my e-mails off of the server before I even read them, even though I had it TURNED OFF because it made everything soooo slooooow!!!
- 2005-04-08, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- SpamKiller - I Will Never Buy Another McAfee Product - Ever
- I have been a satisfied user of the McAfee product line for a number of years.
Up until this time - i have been very pleased with their product.
All this changed when I recently upgraded to McAfee Internet Security 2005 - I recently purchased a new computer and upgraded to DSL. Even though I owned the latest version of Virus Scan and FireWall - I thought best to buy McAfee's Internet Security Suite.
What a mistake.
It seems that there is a critical bug in SpamKiller. SpamKiller captures legitimate emails and does not pass them to Outlook.
This is a very tricky bug because it does not block 100% of the emails - so a user will not immediately realize that there is a problem.
I estimate about 30% of all emails sent to me never made it to outlook.
For me this problem went on for a couple of weeks - I initially attributed it to a new email address.
However, after checking with my DSL provider, I went to McAfee's website.
Buried deep inside the bowels of the website in the SpamKiller forum, I discovered that this is a known bug and that it has been a problem for at least 4 months.
Fortunately, the dropped emails are visible in SpamKiller - you cannot print them - you cannot mot move them - they are difficult to copy and save - but you can read them.
You can only imagine how horrified I was to discover several critical business emails that I had not received.
This is a terribly disappointing experience.
To resolve the problem - I removed SpamKiller
A software bug this critical requires immediate resolution by McAfee - whatever their reason - they have not fixed it.
Worse, they have done nothing to warn users. - 2005-04-05, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
