McAfee Reviews

I'm writing this review because I finally managed to get rid of this stupid application and now wish to spit on its grave one last time. Despite not paying for it for the past five years, it has remained on my computer like a malignant tumor, taking up storage and bothering me with pop-ups every day. I tried deleting it, but it refused to see me as an administrator and would not let itself be removed in my settings or in its file folder. It took getting some 3rd party McAfee remover to finally get rid of the thing. The remover didn't even work all the way as McAssfee still refused to die, but it cripped that cancer of a file folder well enough that I could finally remove it manually. I say this sincerely, I hope you rot in every hell, McAfee, and never show your malignant face on any of my devices ever again.

McAfee is good but I get constant requests to upgrade to eliminate different problems. They are always asking me to upgrade in their pop-ups. I do an automatic scan but to repair (I only had my computer one week) over one thousand problems I need to upgrade my package for $35 plus. I thought all of that was part of my original package, nope. All in all I am happy so far. I just wish the pop-ups to upgrade would stop.

I am writing this review due to the instant pop ups I never asked for. Once every few hours or sometimes every few minutes I will get constant popup ads that will not let me exit easily. These pop ups have probably wasted an hour of my life in total in the past few weeks due to how hard it is to get out of it and go back to what I was doing. It could take up to several minutes to get rid of pop up. I wouldn't have left any review, but now I am writing it out of spite. I don't care how good your system or app is, now I will never use it it due to how much this company has wasted my time.

Recently I needed to install adobe reader. Somehow Mcafee got installed. Now I am going through so much trouble to uninstall it. What a waste of time. This crap should be illegal. Totally unethical way of doing business.

Trash. Alerts you almost every hour with some new scheme to change your browser settings, add features, pay more money. It drives me crazy every time I get a new computer with Windows and have to uninstall it to stop bothering me.

This company misleads you about what is actually going on with your computer. It states that you have limited memory left on your computer when you, in fact, have plenty. I thought false advertising was illegal?

I no longer have a PC, for which I subscribed to Mcafee protection, but Mcafee won't refund me the Total Protection ($114.47) or the PC Optimizer ($68.89) for a non-existing computer. I have used them for about 15 years, but that means nothing to them. It is a scam, that I will have to dispute through my bank and they eventually will have to refund me my money (or at least the difference for the unused [90%?] portion). It does not make sense: They get the bad publicity, have to deal with my bank, and eventually will have to pay. Stupid?

It never really did much for me besides delete safe files I had and stop me from running them, as well as constantly giving me pop-ups saying to renew my plan in like half a year. These pop-ups were every single time I opened my computer.

I purchased a two-year McAfee subscription for $87.07 to cover five devices. Unfortunately, the product failed to protect my computer, which was less than a year old, and we were infected with a Trojan Horse that caused serious damage. When I contacted McAfee for a refund, they refused, citing their 60-day return policy. To make matters worse, they also canceled my subscription and removed my access to the service I had already paid for. I purchased the subscription in September 2024, and McAfee canceled it in January 2025 — less than five months of service out of the two years I paid for. In short, they kept my money and took away the product. This is an unethical and unacceptable business practice that borders on theft. Horrible company — DO NOT buy McAfee!

With pop-ups with red letters and exclamation points, McAfee appears to be trying to frighten me into renewing my subscription well in advance. If I have 18 days to go before it expires, as I have been warned, it's hardly an emergency for me. I could renew online in ten minutes or less if I wanted to. And I'm a grownup who keeps a calendar, so yes, somehow I manage to pay my other bills on time so the McAfee renewal charge would be no different for me.