McAfee Deals & Offers

Same as any other company. Kaspersky was told it's russian state agent as well as 360 security suite did for Chinese.

This is not true. I just bought the 3 year 1 device licence for £10.99 and you can skip auto renew if you close step in the installation requesting this.

Says in reviews you have to have auto renew enabled to activate your code and then contact customer services to get it disabled. If so, that's pretty pss poor!

And hope they listen and have stopped lying?

Download avast and modify the setting not to allow usage of data to third party.

Without a doubt, just need to apply some common sense to the matter. I think some good deals can be had either way even if it’s not a lifetime key.

Of course not all lifetime keys are dodgy, I too had a clutch of them I used on my own personal machines (not that I need to on my main one as I get access to the Toolkit with 5 licenses every year anyway). I think it is safe to say that a lifetime key for a fiver from a guy with 7 feeback is going to be dodgy however.

Not all lifetime keys are dodgy, but obviously unable to prove via eBay. I personally have 2 lifetime keys which I purchased direct from Malwarebytes many moons ago when they actually sold them before changing their pricing model.

I would recommend Malwarebytes as well - I wouldn't bother wasting my money on a lifetime key from eBay though - as soon as it's flagged up it will be deactivated as there is a near 100% chance they are not legit or have been activated on many a machine. I say this as a Malwarebytes partner and I can assure you this info comes straight from the horses mouth. You may be lucky and it might last a while, but pretty much any update will wipe it out and if you don't update it then it's not much use.

Yes, Defender is just as good and it’s free. If you must install software my go to would be Malwarebytes (life time key can be had on eBay) along side Defender.

You can still buy office, 2019 is out but itll cost you about £400 if you prefer that but whiksg it comes with teams, it comes with no updates. Or pay £40 to £80 a year with full features except teams but you get updates.

Not in the heading of this post and I posted before the deal editor added it - perhaps they agreed with me.

I've recently bought Norton 360 for £18... it's from amazon so i can return it.. But was hoping to get a older copy of Office that would not require a yearly renewal..Seems like the biggest con from Microsoft whereas you could buy office before and it would last forever.

Do all users get Personal Vault? I'm seeing it on my iOS App. But just installed OneDrive on my wifes phone and dont see Personal Vault under files or anywhere else?

Can I use this on samsung pc's, tablets and chrombooks

Are you sure its the Office 365 'Home' (6 user) version that is £40 and not the Personal (1 user) ? EDIT....Sorry my apologies Ive just seen that deal for £39.99 from AO ....wow that was cheap Missed it.... Argos have had it for the same price at the moment https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8837505

It comes & goes, but argos & curry's are normally the culprits.

Fairy nuff. I'm in the market for one now and this seemed like a good deal compared to what's on offer right now. Might wait it out for a cpl weeks see if it drops to £40. Thanks

This is often down to ~£40

I was just trying to put some other ideas out there. :) Either way, it’s a good deal and I hope there’s a similar one on offer once I’m done my studies! (excited)

Not really the point I was making. You are free to save files wherever you want to - of course. There is something here that a lot of people with Office 365 free student accounts don’t seem to understand. If your university doesn’t use Office 365 on a subscription basis, Microsoft will give you a free personal student license if you sign up using a valid email address. Only you have access to this account. However if your university does subscribe to Office 365, Microsoft will sign you up to an organisational account managed by the university. This was never a problem with standalone Office student licenses which, admittedly, weren’t free but which cost a nominal £9.99 for a perpetual license.

Only if you store your files in the school/uni’s O365 cloud. I have O365 through the OU but store my files in my personal Dropbox.

Has this expired. Not working for me.

Just got a notification yesterday that mine was expiring, lucky this offer was on :D

This is for 6 devices tho so I'd say a fair deal, tho not outstanding. I search every year for a decent multi user deal and this is less than usual.

Would be a good deal except for the argos one coming out

Cold. Almost constantly £40 for this at Argos.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/microsoft-office-365-home-mcafee-total-protection-6-devices-for-3999-at-argos-free-cc-3405164

Looked a good price but Argos deal just posted by another user with a cheaper price

I’d rather have the virus.

Yeah my bad, I didn't know how good McAfee was before posting this advert

yeah but the former owner is nuts :P

You may as well smash it with a hammer as it'll never be the same again with this installed

Mcafee isn’t good at all. It never be (y)

re your 'double glove' comment Antivirus programs do not usually play well together, and running two at the same time will often lead to one singling out the other as a virus, or in some cases, even cause file corruption. Plus, running two Av's can really eat up system resources. so if you must install this McAffee S4it you must disable the inbuilt Windows Defender

I have Av. It's called windows defender on Win 10 Having another one is completely unnecessary To repeat having more than one AV on win 10 is nonsense as they will conflict with each other

I'm aware of what a virus is. Clearly as someone who doesn't have AV you wouldn't know I do and they do. Let's hope you don't get hacked as you will be stuffed with that humble pie

2 av's do not work together They cause a conflict Malware is not virus Anti Malware if you must install on a mobile, but most times unnessarry

Right so what happens when you get Malware on your phone? How do you remove it ? I disagree McAfee is very good anti virus but that's the risk your take. I prefer to double glove it. For £4 a year it's not expensive

anyone recommend a WiFi 6 router please?

B b

And these are losing their purpose with mesh WiFi becoming a lot cheaper

I have this router which I managed to get from amazon for £50 and its great with my virgin bb.

I'd expect prices to start coming down on these types of devices, as the WiFi 6 standard is out in the wild now.

It depends on personal needs and convenience I am using Office 365 since many years and use One Drive storage as spare backup of all my data and I can access it from anywhere in the world from any devices. I don’t prefer to carry external hard drive everywhere with me.

Especially true given the price SSDs are now.

It's not for you then? A great deal (at the 40 quid tho) for those who understand it's usefulness though.

Cloud storage is a marketing hype. MS operating systems all have back doors in them, (since Win XP) giving them a direct link in with cloud storage is the biggest confidence trick out there. No different than plugging a lead into your computer and letting the World view it. It just means you are giving someone else access to all your data and files. Much better to buy another hard drive and back up.

Cloud storage is worth paying for. Some Skype minutes for international calls is also useful. I bought 2 of these on Christmas day for £39.99 each off of the Argos store on eBay. I've bought them before from there at that price so just keep an eye out and it'll probably drop again. You can stack them in the Microsoft account for a maximum of 5 years.

I didn't notice that. 3 of the 4 tests are 2019, 1 is from 2011. Odd

I couldn't give away the copies that come with Office 365!

Does it fund his yacht expenses (lol) or his 47 children? (lol) Where is he these days anyways on a island or on a boat still? jking I don’t think he recites a penny of this since he sold it

How annoying, I did not get any problems on my Windows 10 machines but it sounds like a comparability issue. Whats the link to the forum so I can see your error messages and see if I can help. Also you might be able to sell the licence to someone else so don't write the money off yet :)

Make sure you read the test results properly and don't take it on face value. If you look at the Malware test for McAfee that is from 2011 so nearly 9 years out of date. In the latest performance, false alarm and real world tests McAfee performed better than the free products. I would guess that the Malware on the latest version of McAfee would also perform better (although I don't know for sure). Free AntiVirus is fine for many and I used it myself but I found it a pain for my parents as it kept popping up with rubbish and getting them to upgrade for 'free' but putting a 30 day trial on. For a few pounds I can manage the licences for them and myself (and siblings) and spend much less time fixing the problems you get with the free products. Of course what the site shows is that there are plenty of good options to chose from. Thanks for pointing it out to me as it was a good read. I could't decide between McAfee, Symantec and Kaspersky and I think for my needs I did get the best (McAfee). It actually comes 2nd best for performance which is amazing considering where it was when I stopped using it :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/McAfee-Total-Protection-2020-10-Device-5-Year-KEY-instant-FAST-DELIVERY/312811601624?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 I offered £6, which was accepted. The only problem is, which I found out later, was the time started from Sept, not when I bought it. So I "lost" 3 months already. Neutral feedback left for the seller.

Link please

I paid £6 for 10 devices 5 years on eBay...

I used to use it but some people will like it.

McAfee/McAfail is a virus.

Back to £59.99 now.

Great deal. I had been thinking of getting through work's HUP, where it's 1/3 off of 79.99. I was initially upset they stopped the 9.99 for Office Pro Plus. But the 1TB storage via 365 is worth it for me, taking into account myself, my wife, and my two sons. But this Argos offer equates to 83p per user per month for the 4 of us. Low stock now though, Managed to find one for collection not too far from my parent's.

Yes but after the subscription runs out you'll have to pay again or download the lot onto a pc that would take days haha :D

And what if MS get hacked with ransomware attack? Just sayin'

They may take a copy of what is there but this is not the same as backing it up IMO. Anything could happen to your files (accidental deletion and subsequent emptying of recycle bin, malicious intervention etc). You cannot retrieve data from MS backups if it got deleted and then removed from recycle bin.

I have to agree... although it’s been years,I’d never use McAffee again.

I have tried various antivirus progs over the years both free and paid for. Currently using paid for BitDefender with a multi family licence so we can use it on various desktops, notebooks, android tablets and phones. Not had any issues with it for the last year or two. Normally deals about so I have never paid full price. Free antivirus is okay but limited unless you upgrade or use other progs to cover things like having a firewall. I stopped using free because of all the nagging upgrade screens. I don't think McAfee is rated too highly by users. I did a search for reviews of all antivirus progs before picking BitDefender.

Bitdefender (y)

For a Windows PC, I’ve used both free versions of Avast and AVG with Defender in the background. Also in conjunction with Adaware and Malwarebytes. Never any compatibility issues running any in parallel. Expect the odd pop up or email encouraging you to upgrade further, but they’re businesses after all. Just my personal experience of these products here by the way, didn’t cost me anything, others may have different opinions

McAfee is absolutely rubbish, the program not the person, the man himself is an absolute LEGEND.

They've got this one for £4.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074TZ6TYL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I had added the £5 off £25 spend from last week but forgot about it and it just took it off so got it for free

(poo) You'd have to pay me.

Got this free last year with Sky, DH has it on his laptop and so far has had no problems, Sky want to charge now so may give this a go.

It still sucks, I use it in work. Slow as hell

Heat for the price itself, not so sure about how good it is nowadays. As I said in some of my posts in the past, this AV wasn't in my fav list when had to deal with it as IT Technician with many laptops. That said, I can't judge it only based on the past, so will be up to people who actually have been using it since the last year to give some honest feedback. But you know, considering also that recently Avast/AVG were caught spying on users throughout a browser add-on, everything good could get bad and viceversa in very short time nowadays.

Deal is no longer valid no free headphones

I'd be interested to know what it is you couldn't do on yours and why you think lack of ram is to blame? If your tablet is sluggish it's more likely to be an underpowered processor. Tablets are basically consumption devices - if you're looking for a workstation you'd be better off with a Chromebook or small Windows laptop. For media consumption, web browsing, Facebook and casual gaming this tablet is great.

Or maybe some of us already have tablets with 2GB ram and know the limitations of those specs for what we want a tablet for.

Would this be a good upgrade from an iPad mini 3? Or is there a better tablet to go for

Thank you for posting, we have added your thread to the Highlights page (y)

Is there any difference between this and the total protection one?

perfect timing, hopefully use this for a 1 year true key sub, which is £20 in the app alone

Hate it, always in your face selling some add-on. First thing I remove.

Really good price, though the enterprise version they install on my work laptop still makes it crawl on start up, though I suspect that is due to the settings the IT people have

Thanks OP - been waiting for an offer for this , had the same offer last year and thought it was okay. Voted hot.

Watch out McAfee products do not work with ALL Amazon Fire Tablets. Purchased this from Argos along with the Tablet but found out it is not compatible. Contacted McAfee was on phone for 30 minutes trying to get refund as it does not state this its not compatible on Argos web page or McAfee. Argos told me I should have researched it before I bought it and wont refund my money. Now gonna try the free security to get Tablet online before contacting McAfee for a link which will take at least 3 weeks to send a cheque.. Talk about security

No Mcafee.

Snake oil

Seems that the price has gone up to £9.99?

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/mcafee-total-protection-2020-1-device-pcmacandroidsmartphones-3338459 is 2.99 on amazon

thank you.

I switched 2,4ghz to channel 1 and 5ghz to channel 36 It just seemed to get quicker each day

please inform me what happened and you got better results, i have exactly same figures in living room and upstairs with my phone, and i am also lloking something to connect to my virgin hub3. how did yours improve? did you change channel or what is the new signal streight you get on your mobile device on second floor? instead of old 50mbps figure ??

A week later and is now running perfectly Back down to £50.89

Mine arrived yesterday and have to say its really awful. My superhub 3 got 45mbps upstairs and the best I can get is 10mbps on 2,4ghz or 18mbps on 5ghz with this d-link A laptop in the same room as the routers got 110mbps on the vm hub but only 55mbps on this d-link (both 5ghz) I wonder if I could send it back as not fit for purpose....