McAfee has been a somewhat controversial product within the antivirus software market.
It's one of the most widely used and recognized brands of malware protection products, but it doesn't perform as well as competitors in rigorous testing.
While McAfee Antivirus does offer stable, and oftentimes secure, overarching protection features, it falls down in certain categories.
McAfee Antivirus software provides reliable real time virus protection, and even includes a built-in software firewall in this the most basic version, which is very rare to find in a basic antivirus package
The most common complaint we hear about McAfee is that it puts a noticeable load on your PCs when running, something we saw on our test PCs, too.