McAfee Deals & Offers

Yes you get two product keys. I only bought this for the office 365. You can probably try and sell the mcafee product key.

Yes.

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Can I install this without having to install mcafee?

Yes, but then you still get pop up after pop up after pop up after pop up. Needs a full and thorough uninstall. It will also try to change your browser homepage at any opportunity. Just avoid. Don't even trial it.

Really good value. You can have the activation code posted to you or e-mailed in a couple of minutes. Just installed and activated without any drama!

No need to use the screenshots. Looks like I’ll be getting the 30% off. (y) 🏻

Glad I got screenshots of 30% when I ordered one yesterday. Was a bit surprised though when they added the total amount to my account I would pay if I took the full amount of time to settle the account. Nearly £1000! 😳 As soon as that 30% is taken off, I’m throwing my money at them and running away never to use the account again....unless they do a similar deal next year. (lol)

Great news :D . I'm sure she'll love it. I'm leaning towards waiting for a deal on a 15.6 screen (this one has gone down to only 20% cash back) but that was definitely a great deal!

It's very smart indeed. It's for my daughter and I think she'll be impressed with the aesthetics.... seeing as she hasn't got a clue about RAM and SSDs (lol)

Oh wow! Tempted. Have all of 3 hours to decide!

Can anyone recommend a good free anti virus?

Windows 10 has the perfectly adequate Windows Defender built in these days anyway!

Free antivirus (many available), a privacy focused browser and common sense. Total cost £0.

An you help us all with better suggestions ..or maybe a whisky deal .to ko us

Mcafee total system hog would be more appropriate...

Same price in John Lewis with 3 year guarantee or in Argos with £10 voucher.

Mc Afee is only some of the bloat that Samsung pre-installs on their tablets Samsung gets paid to have this bloat on

how is this still over £200, i got one over a year ago from amazonwarehouse for under £100 when they had the 30% off open boxes offer. as for McAfee, i've never heard anything good about it in 31 years On August 19, 2010, Intel announced that it would purchase McAfee for $48 a share in a deal valued at $7.68 billion. On January 6, 2014, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced during the Consumer Electronics Show the name change from McAfee Security to Intel Security. The company's red shield logo would remain, with the firm continuing to operate as a wholly owned Intel subsidiary. John McAfee, who no longer has any involvement in the company, expressed his pleasure at his name no longer being associated with the software. "I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet. These are not my words, but the words of millions of irate users. However, as of 2016 the products still bore the McAfee name.

I've had this tablet for over 12mths now lovely piece of kit bought it as a refurb in excellent condition..... As for McAfee no thanks

No thanks on pc either

Seriously I thought everyone knew that Mcafee sold his antivirus software to Intel like over a decade ago, those people talking about trusting this AV software based on media coverage of the "former" owner are insane. Sure Intel are probably wondering if keeping his name was a good idea i.e. its not so positive as it was, but still, get with the current decade.

Watch Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee, and decide if you trust Mcafee !

Everyone has heard a bad story about <insert AV here>, Norton used to be the bad one, then Kaspersky with its supposed Russian links. Truth is they all have to be invasive to do their job, if an Anti Virus does not have some impact on your PC its not working correctly, they simply have to read a file as its opened to do their job, and its better to be careful than getting Malware. None of them are perfect, they cant ever be 100% safe and which one is the best all depends on what samples the comany has analysed and got signitures for, and when the last upgrade was released compared to the testing date. The built in Windows Defender is good, but its only AV/Anti Malware, pay more for a premium product and you get more bells and whiles like VPN, Child protection, rejection of suspisious websites, password safes and so on.

mcafee is malware. Avoid.

Although the free Avast, now with NON STOP pop ups trying to get you to upgrade is a major pain, bordering on spyware itself!

This is a virus

Oooft, nerd joke.

get mine off of ebay about £5.50 never had a problem and i download some cr#p

Putting a padlock round your ethernet cable would be a better choice.

Not sure that's "most workplaces". Some allow Office at a massive discount via Microsoft's Home Use Programme but that requires specific sign up by the organisation and that they have sufficient enterprise licences to cover the end user requirement. If you are referring to the use of the "up to 5 installs per users" allowance of Office 365 that refers to devices within the organisation unless explicity agreed.

They don't even have an email client let alone a replacement for OneNote. The freebies are fine for many but are useless for some.

https://www.libreoffice.org or https://www.openoffice.org free does same job fully compatible via ms office

That's not why. Most workplaces / universities allow download of Office 365 for free, or for much cheaper than this price, just by logging into the office 365 website.

The boo boys that hate anything MS will unfortunately jump all over this. Shame they don't spend their time finding useful deals instead

Promo code for £10 off Microsoft Office 365 Home on Amazon for anyone that wants it (I already have a sub so it's no use to me) - please post once used to others know - 25S7-P5TRM6-YQ999T

You'll probably get more hot votes if you don't mention the bundled McAfee to be honest :D Heat from me but expect the usual £3 ebay comments.

Great price OP. These appear now and again. *que mindless cold votes from the cool kids*

Hey, thanks superfamking. Guess I've just been unlucky. AO are really good with customer service and will let me return it. 3rd times the charm?? I wouldn't go with HP if there were any other manufacturer's laptops out there with similar specs.

I bought the gold one for my daughter.....yes it's plasticky all over so not exactly a premium feel, but it isn't rattling like yours, Everything seems nice, solid and well fitted

Great little laptop! Bought it for my daughter and opened it this morning to stick in another 4gb ram and a 120Gb ssd I had lying around.... really impressed with it, so the build quality isn't quite there, but on performance it beats my £1400 i5 7th gen HP Spectre x360.

Good spec for the price but... I'm on my second and the case construction is atrocious; It rattles. If you tap the touch pad, rattle, tap the case rattle. I've never come across such a rattly poorly made case. Returned the first one as I thought it was a bad batch but the second was worse. I'm going to return again. it's just too bargain basement. Does anyone have a really rattly one? I got the gold one. If it's not as bad in silver or red I may go for that. Screen is good but a bit dim. The power is more than enough to run steam and I tested it with binary domain at full settings which works absolutely fine. Never expected to be able to game on this but it is quite capable for older titles. Start up is quick and it can easily run multiple Apps. Can't get anything for this spec elsewhere.

Yes I tend to have several tabs and/or programs opent once (usually just office and Chrome though, occasionally using work related software ActiveInspire or Smart Notebook).

Looks alright however personally I would want an i3 over an amd chip. Not too sure on how much difference it would make but i3 gets the better write ups

Thanks for the insight, haven't bought a laptop in years so generally have no clue about them and their costs. What's your opinion on this? https://www.very.co.uk/dell-inspiron-15-5000-series-amd-a6-8gb-ram-1tb-hard-drive-dvdcd-drive-156-inch-hd-laptop-with-optional-microsoft-office-365-home-ndash-white/1600153255.prd

I got the same one but with a 1TB HDD for 350 and that was over a year ago

cheeky request I know, does anyone have a spare licence :)

So I bit the bullet on this and paid (with a lot of groaning) the £60. Interestingly, I waited until the day after my existing subscription expired, it offered me an additional month free if I agreed to an automatic renewal- which I duly did. Immediately after it confirmed my new expiry date was June 17 next year, I cancelled the auto renewal and the date still remains at 13 months.... So effectively got an extra month free without commitment.

Thank you for that (both issues). I think I paid about £40 last year in someone's special deal. My subscription does not expire for nearly a month so I might just leave it a while and if nothing better comes up I'll take the Argos option. I had not come across CEX previously (although I had noticed the store in town); I thank you for confirming my views about buying software from there (or not - if you take my point).

I got a renewal for this for £42 last year (same time) from Amazon. It's £67 now and hasn't moved for months. My subscription expires today so am gonna have ot bite the bullet unfortunately. ALthough I get stuff from CEX (touch wood, no issues so far) I just wouldn't trust the software option.

I dropped into a branch of CEX in town today and discovered it is a secondhand software dealer (I had not come across it previously). There is nothing wrong with that as such, but the store did not have the MS licence I wanted in stock, so I would have to get it by mail. In that case I've decided there is too much risk as the item that turns up could easily be a new user only licence (which may be purchased elsewhere for about £30) rather than one I may use to extend my subscription by a year. I decided that the Argos offer is much safer (but I won't install the bundled software - the anti-virus program included in Windows is perfectly adequate). Thank you for posting the CEX option though - it was worth exploring.

Not just for pc for android devices mobiles etc

McAfee what a guyfyi windows has malware tools built in now so no need to ruin your PC with this junk

For me, it's in the over burdening, heavy-handed, intrusive and resource hungry bracket. However, your bracket mileage may vary.

Defender is resource hungry and not very good AV solution when it comes to detection. However it's OK if you only goto known trusted websites and only download from reputable sites. Check AV-comparative performance benchmarks. M$ can definitely release better version but they will "Not" to avoid regulatory scrutiny. They definitely don't want another "Internet Explorer" saga with EU.

No just no. Gonna get cold in here.

Correct as all you are doing is buying a subscription deal to get the latest definitions, these days while we have defender doing this already you really are only buying Malware defences which this does pretty well, I suspect over the next few years defender will have this covered and these AV companies will have only business use.

For those who dont know McAfee is in the top notch bracket.Hot.