McAfee Reviews

Overall all antivirus engines are pretty much all the same with various degrees of effectiveness but I've noticed a pattern lately from many companies taking over customer's desktop screens to use as their personal billboards without consent. If I paid for the product this should not be. I demanded a refund from Norton for this reason and it will be one of the major factors in me choosing my next Antivirus subscription. DO NOT USE NORTON NOR MCAFEE.

Terrible company. Lies to you about their product then when you get mad after finding out they lied and try to cancel they won’t allow it and their representative called me a liar … never use this company.

I stupidly had the auto renewal setting on with my subscription. They raised the price from $96/year to $170/year!!!! Unbelievable! Make sure to turn off the auto renewal setting asap so you don't get ripped off like I did!!

McAfee® LiveSafe™ was preinstalled on the laptop device my child (under 13) received in 2021 after a brief "free trial" period the service rolled into a two-year subscription for $81.65 w/ tax. he canceled the service and uninstalled the software about 18 months after that subscription change. recently we received an auto-renewal that was not authorized it was set as the default on the account when it was set up as a free trial. The auto-renewal cost was $163.30 w/ tax. The billing payment receipt notice said we had 60 days to request a refund. I requested the refund within a few hours of the transaction being posted to my account—the website for McAfee forces a call to Customer Service to request a refund.

We cancelled our subscription two months ago. Removed this application using their tool. Auto renew was off and thought that was the end of it. Yesterday we received an email that they charged me 199 dollars via our Chase card. Made it clear we no longer wanted their software. They refunded our card. Six hours later we received another charge to our credit card, this time for 149 dollars. They didn't want to refund us (** rep) until I told them they would be facing a major lawsuit for fraud. Received our refund ASAP. This company should not be in business because they are committing fraud.

I bought McAfee a year ago and never had any problems I was aware of. I rarely got a warning of viruses, etc. My subscription ran out and I would have renewed except my card had expired and they could not renew from their end. I was immediately flooded with pop-ups from them every 30 seconds or so with various notices and warnings. four days later I still get them. Even though I can not recall getting a notification from them warning of a virus when the subscription was active, they are now sending popups saying I have five viruses, I have been hacked, there are numerous Trojan horses, etc. Strange there were no problems until the subscription expired. I uninstalled McAfee but I still get repeated popups. I have no idea how to stop them. This sort of activity is the mark of a crooked business in my opinion.

A scam and just wont stop lying to get my money. When I got my computer McAfee was the default anti virus software. It actually was some help with scanning downloads. However, when I accidentally got hit by malware it immediately started blowing up my screen with notifications like "YOUR COMPUTER HAS 5 VIRUSES. BUY MCAFEE TO ACTIVATE ANTI VIRUS." And things along that line. I was scared but I decided to try to download a free anti virus (that also had better reviews) and then I dowloaded a 2nd. The other anti virus extensions all said that the malware had been deleted and was no longer a threat. However, McAfee continued to spam me so I tried to uninstall it but it didn't work. It is still harassing me.

My family and me stopped using McAfee, it's because they are cheating us. They are not reliable once if you do autorenewal, they overcharged our account and provided very poor service. They charged our account before the renewal period, and they provided trial service which ended soon. Their agents online and over the phone are not keeping up with what they said. I am not recommending McAfee Antivirus Protection to anyone and never do any business with them.

Overcharged, poor service. I honestly will never do business again with this company. EVER. They let scam centers run wild with scam emails and calls and don't do anything about it. It's like they support it or something. They employ cheap call centers that do their customer service during the day and scam call center at night. This is another great example of a company that eventually will lose every customer it has one, by one.

I have a MAC so maybe my experience is different than PC users. The every month, Mcafee Antivirus stops working. This seems to be whenever it updates the virus definitions. The only solution is to manually remove and install the new version of Mcafee! I don't have the time or inclination to do this so I am going to switch back to Norton Antivirus. Mcafee wouldn't even give me a refund because it was 32 days since I purchased it. The founder of Mcafee was a terrible person as well. Look him up!