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I have a Dell machine which came with McAfee pre-installed. When it came to apply for another year I did so, but despite paying the money, the Virus protection stopped and failed to start up as it used to when the renewal date expired. I have since bought it again for £29.99 but it failed to install with a simple message saying 'Failed to install, try installing again'. After seven hours of scouring the internet for solutions I decided to treat it as a bad joke that cost £30. I downloaded AVG...

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Guest's response to GreenBilbo's Review

Written on: 19/05/2012

I have had the same happen to me. 17/05/2012 despite e-mails and phoning mcafee i have had no response from them in two days have tried cancelling but do not know what is happening. will be contacting credit card company to cancel money and going to pc world for anti virus and it wont be mcafee

Gerrynix's response to GreenBilbo's Review

Written on: 19/05/2012

I've just download McAfee, for £29.99, but I had to shut down in the middle, because it stopped and was interfering with my broadband connection. The thief-proof software went through the motions of installing, but didn't, and now I don't know how to download it again.
This, like AVG said there were no threats on my computer, yet Clam Win free unearthed one W32 virus, plus 120 virus infected 135-dialers which their quaranteened; this costing nothing. Sadly, I could not find an authentic trustworthy supplier for Clam Win, so I went to McAfee, who - surprise, surprise, who one hour after running Clam Win, and getting those virus reports, McAffee reckons my PC hais possessive of no infections whatsoever. So who is right, and who has paid £29.99, only to be assured *your computer is
protected and clean* Hmmmm

Gerrynix's response to GreenBilbo's Review

Written on: 21/05/2012

Clam Win was the best for me - and I downloaded it for free, from the internet. This - when all the others, including McAfree, are telling me that my PC is clean and safe to use - detected 120 infected 135-dialers on my computer, plus one Trojan, and one W42 virus; all residual of a recent hacker attack, which installed itself into my system, and obviously is still there. My experience with McAfee is very disappointing; enough to prompt me to remark:
Barnham was right: *There's One Born Every Minute !*
Thanks McAfee, for a £29.99 sphere of useless plastic that has done nothing except slow my PC down to snail-pace, so that
now it takes me 20 seconds to download each picture from the internet. I intend to seek a refund, otherwise my complaint will go to the BBC TV consumer show *Watchdog*, and for sure.

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