McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 was projected to be a great antivirus but our tests revealed which is the real power of it and shows a lot of things which can be improved.
McAfee Antivirus 2009 has a user friendly interface and looks very simple at first view. If you want to work with this menu you’ll discover that this antivirus is a little bit confusing because e lot of features cannot be accessed directly from interface. It’s necessary to dig few levels in menus to find some access buttons. We can say that this interface and menus must be redesigned in next versions.
The antivirus interface looks clean and easy to use in the first time when you see the menus. The menus are located on right / left parts and you can change easily from normal mode menu to advanced configuration interface.
McAfee Virus Scan installation process is not short and you must ask at few questions about the settings. A bad thing at install process is that these questions are not very clear and you can setup wrong the antivirus.
In our opinion McAfee VirusScan 2009 has a difficult interface and is difficult to use by a usual novice computer user.
The scanning speed is another minus at this antivirus and this thing can be easily viewed when you want to scan an entire partition, for example. Another poor thing is a low detection rate against malware threats.
McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 is still a good antivirus but it needs many improvements if it wants to stay in our top. McAfee offers in this version an integrated antivirus, an firewall which can block hackers attacks and a good antispyware solution.
If you want to uninstall McAfee Antivirus 2009 you’ll be discovered that this software has not an uninstall option. You must go to Control Panel and after that to access Add/Remove programs and to uninstall McAfee. This is not a “normal” process for an paid antivirus but McAfee 2009 is an unpleasant surprise at this chapter.
If you ever need to uninstall McAfee, there’s not an instant uninstall feature. You’re required to go into your Add/Remove Programs feature to remove the software. This isn’t a big hurdle for most people, but it’s still one more hurdle to overcome that isn’t necessary.
Our conclusion is McAfee VirusScan 2009 is a good antivirus if you want just basic protection. McAfee is still at the long distance by our top rated antivirus software: Kaspersky 2010 and BitDefender 2010. Many free antivirus software offers you more features without must pay any money. If you want a good antivirus solution and you don’t navigate very often in web virus environment you can choose McAfee VirusScan 2009.
