Jul 15, 2015 08:48 AM
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I had taken McAfee Virus Scan for my daughter's table-top PC as it was availabe for Rs 99 for 1 year: she is in primary school, and her PC has no sensitive data anyway.
So I decided to buy McAfee as it was cheap
Big mistake
McAfee is not only cheap, but ineffective as well. Not by accident, but by design.
On google Chrome my kids started getting a warning "your flash player is out of date, please upgrade". This was suspicious, as flash player is integrated with Google chrome and no downloads are needed.
Raised Service Request # 1778514697
After wasting over an hour in chat and sessions with McAfee "chat support", a McAfee susp application to detect suspect files was run. And I was told to contact the virus removal centre at 1800 425 2353 or online, for further action. The chat support was closed.{ Chat session ID 4845701778514697 dated 14/07/2015}
Turned out that the Virus Removal Centre will charge me over 300% the money of the original purchase, to "clean" my PC.
I uninstalled McAfee, having burnt time and money on 2 months "protection" that was worthless. I installed the earlier antivirus, with a 3 year renewal, and the problem disappeared.
McAfee is cheap and a trap, in my view. Once you are in the trap, your viruses will not be blocked: enough are allowed to penetrate so that you can have the pleasure of paying more money for the Virus removal service.
