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# Trellix Endpoint Security User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.2/5
- Total reviews: 1,806

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.2/5
- Customer support: 4.1/5
- Value for money: 4.0/5
- Functionality: 4.2/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 848 reviews (47%)
- 4 stars: 635 reviews (35%)
- 3 stars: 205 reviews (11%)
- 2 stars: 76 reviews (4%)
- 1 star: 42 reviews (2%)

### Most mentioned pros

- Threat Intelligence – Powered by real-time global data (thanks to FireEye DNA)
- Company data is significantly better protected with Trellix.
- An overwhelming application for this tool its ability to host critical or sensitive assets.

### Most mentioned cons

- As I am also responsible for preparation of the product for installation and installation on end machines, I have struggled few times to do my job.
- I had some rough time integrating this software with my existing systems especially because I had not ventured into technology deeper.
- I have faced issues with configuration, updates and installation.

## Trellix Endpoint Security customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 1,806 (page 1).

### Best in the industry

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Joshua K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

McAfee is a trusted and well-known brand. Their speciality has always been computer security; this makes me feel a bit more at ease when it comes to protecting my business devices. It integrates well with MacOS and iOS, so setting it up was very easy. The best thing perhaps is that it does the job very well without needing to bog down CPU/memory usage.

#### Cons

There isn't really anything in particular that I don't like about this software.

#### Reasons for switching to Trellix Endpoint Security

Norton AntiVirus made my MacBook run very, very slow.

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### McAfee Endpoint Security Is Solid As A Rock!!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: JAZE P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Architecture & Planning
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: August 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have a complete piece of mind all the time when using my PC. This software takes actions against threats immediately so as long as it's updated, I am never worried about cyber attacks.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

This software comes with a defensive technology designed to protect your PC, correct your PC and detect malware/viruses on your PC throughout the lifecycle of an attack by using advanced machine learning and reputation-based counter-measures. Easy to use and even easier to manage, it becomes more intelligent as new attacks become more intelligent.

#### Cons

I find that the software does pop-up a lot to make you aware of its presence on your PC. At times while I'm busy watching content on my computer, it likes to advertise its new features inappropriately but I would rather be safe than sorry so I just minimize it.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

McAfee has been a brand I have trusted for years and although Avast was becoming rather popular in recent years, I felt more comfortable using what has never let me down before.

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### No Regrets Using This Platform

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Michael D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Facilities Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have no regrets with McAfee. They're always pushing to elevate and innovate and it shows in the products they sell.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I am amazed at how much McAfee has to offer in their suites. From basic malware scanning to USB control to ransomware protection. It's all tied together in one package.

#### Cons

The dashboard is jam packed with reports and alerts. This is great in terms of visibility but it also means that you cannot see certain statistics at a glance. I'm sure some UI changes are in the pipeline though.

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### MacAfee…Maybe

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Amy H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Executive Office
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I really like McAfee I think it’s a solid fortress for any computer any where. It has unbeatable fire walls and the darn thing won’t let the dust bear your machine.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

What I like is that this software is like having an army wrapped around my computer. It lets nothing go unnoticed, very secure and inexpensive

#### Cons

What I like least about this is the alerts are a bit over whelming and disruptive. There are several alarms which are interruptions when in the middle of a project

#### Reasons for switching to Trellix Endpoint Security

I switched because Norton was not alarming me when there were threats in my system and it had minimal features at that time it’s been years ago.

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### An effective antivirus product from one of the leading security companies

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Uzair A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We use McAfee Endpoint Security as a primary security solution to protect our infrastructure nodes. We have also integrated it with McAfee EPolicyOrchestrator (EPO) in order to manage all the ENS nodes from a single console.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Its ability to integrate seamlessly in all the major OS (Windows, Linux, Mac OS) and granular level of customization to suit specific needs are one of the greatest features in ENS. Also, with its additional modules, we can further enhance its capabilities to achieve maximum protection.

#### Cons

It would be better if it has the feature of determining the missing critical OS updates.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

McAfee Endpoint Security has proven to be the most efficient antivirus solution because of its number of modules that integrate with it and provide protection from multiple ways.

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### McAfee - Antivirus

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Syed Amir A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall experience has been great. It's an amazing antivirus application which gives you complete satisfaction and sense of security.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The best part is that I have never faced any antivirus issue in my laptop till the time I was using this software. So, kudos to that

#### Cons

First of all, I don't like the UI and then the frequent updates

#### Reasons for switching to Trellix Endpoint Security

I switched my company and there were using McAfee

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### Doesnt Escape Anything but your computer Resources

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Carlos Benjamin G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Events Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2020
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

It is a great Antivirus, but it is not for everyone, for the most Expensive Antivirus you should expect Good Performance, balanced at least, but it is not.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Have never had any Issues of Viruses with MCAfee, it is really great, but ...

#### Cons

It take a lot of the computer Recources, sometimes (when it is checking for viruses) takes 90% of the computer Resources, It does it whenever he wants, It is hard to get to the config to change or make it stop, it is not really User Friendly.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

It was Better than Avast in Everyway (but price)

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### A very solid antivirus solution

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: André L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Solid protection, the company has years of experience on this industry, the price could be a problem to small to medium companies, and it is a very easy to use solution.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

It has a solid protection database, with the McAfee expertise of decades going through viruses and other menaces on internet, also, it is easy to deploy and use, the features on the client side are very easy to understand and control it.

#### Cons

The price compared to the other peers is not so good, I can say that about Brazil, do not know if it is a problem on other countries. Sometimes even when you put a file or site on the whitelist, it takes some time to replicate it, even forcing us to reboot the computer to get the configuration done.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

By the time, it was the most solid and reliable solution on the market.

#### Reasons for switching to Trellix Endpoint Security

Price, features and deployment tools and configurations.

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### McAfee Review

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Bryce J.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

overall its a really good security application.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 2/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I liked this because it had all the features that i need like security and ease of deployment.

#### Cons

My only gripe is the price. Wish it was a little cheaper

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

McAfee has more features and more reliable than the other products

#### Reasons for switching to Trellix Endpoint Security

Norton took over the entire machine and we couldn't

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### Great Security Solution

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Jorge G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Outsourcing/ Offshoring
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It´s been a good experience so far. The product has been deployed and used for sometime with no roadblocks on his core functions.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

- Easy to deploy and setup for the First Time - Light resources usage on Client Machines - It gets updated frequently - Robust Virus detection engine - Easy Administration and client monitoring

#### Cons

- McAfee Support is not that good. They need to improve their Technical Support Team. The response time is too high. - Could be somewhat pricey.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

We based our decision on products review and partner advices.

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### Good protection against viruses and malwares.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Sebnem V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We have been using McAfee Endpoint Security for years. The software is so successful for protecting your endpoints. If you use this software with McAfee ePO which is centralized security management software, you can easily configure, use and manage

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

McAfee Endpoint Security is one of the most important security software in our company. The software is so good in malware and virus protection. McAfee Endpoint Security not only protects against viruses and/or malwares but also has fabuluous functionality to repair infected files. Also, software has an excellent reporting capabilities.

#### Cons

The software requires a lot of RAM, because of consumption of McAfee resources is so high. Computers slow down while scanning. Antiphishing capability is little bit poor.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

We did some POC on a few products and we chose the McAfee Enpoint Security because of the good overall functionality.

#### Reasons for switching to Trellix Endpoint Security

Our license was over. We have researched new products and decided to use McAfee Endpoint Security.

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### Peace of mind for small network

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Amirshahab S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2021
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

During several years, I used different version of MacAfee and find it a better solution for small size network or even home laptops. With MAcafee Endpoint application, there is no single point of fail. I would recommend constant backup and plenty of Ram for the main server.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It has great protection for my small network and all systems are under protection umbrellas by this software. Scheduling regular scan is easy and manual scan is easier. The detection level and its guard is higher than free app(Like windows defender). Updating the app is so easy and reporting is available. the interface and the main menu is also easy to work and very user friendly.

#### Cons

It controls the search engine and sometime changes it to standard useless Yahoo search. it makes the boot or first startup a bit slower and one may feel total computer speed is slower. However it becomes good after some seconds

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

It supported by my ISP and also had better pricing.(Free for some of the units)

#### Reasons for switching to Trellix Endpoint Security

faster and better performance.

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### Trellix Endpoint Security

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Neel P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

My overall experience will this software is great and I love it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

What I liked most about this software is that you can manage all of the open threats to your devices and keep them safe beforehand something happens to them.

#### Cons

What I liked least about this software is that they will send many emails once you scan one of your devices but that is also a good thing because you will know what is up with your devices at all times.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

I choose this software because it had all of the things I would need for my business and to keep all of my devices safe.

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### In a world with a lot of security options, it's hard to pick just one

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We used McAfee for two years when we decided to cancel our license. This decision was 100% because another company offered us a deal we couldn't refuse. I don't want to name the other company because I know the deal is no longer offered. Long story short, this new tools seems to make my computer run a little faster, and they claim to be just as secure. I have never suffered a major security breach at any company I have worked with, and I am glad I haven't. Who is to say whether that is coincidence or whether these tools are doing their job. At the end of the day, buying any security tool is a bit like buying a body guard. There's always going to be someone that could take that guard down with the right amount of force. You have to find the guard that makes you feel safe and helps you sleep at night. I never lost a single night's sleep with McAfee, and I have maybe lost one or two with this new company. You have to find the guard that is right for you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Great interface. Everything about McAfee's brand and tools feels and looks professional. I can tell that they take security very seriously. I have had minimal interaction with their Support Team, and my issues were quickly resolved. Set up is extremely quick and self explanatory. Getting my team set up was done in less than a week after purchase, and McAfee has been doing it's job quietly in the background ever since. Because it's such a widely used tool, most problems can be solved with a quick Google search. Which is a huge plus for a guy like me.

#### Cons

I am not tech savvy enough to understand why, but I feel that McAfee slows my system down more than some of the alternatives I have used. And I am fairly tech savvy. It's really frustrating to adopt tools that are supposed to improve your safety, but it's hard to love them when they are reducing your productivity. That being said, if you are vetting these tools for a large company, I would imagine this slowdown is well worth the peace of mind McAfee can otherwise bring. I feel like scans can take longer than expected sometimes, making it difficult to find the right time of day to perform them (in the morning it can halt a teammate's productivity, but at the end of the day it could extend past closing time). I always hate to mention price as a con, especially for things that can save your millions of dollars, but McAfee is not cheap. I'll let you work out whether or not that matters for you and your business.

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### Suitable for general use.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: PUREUM W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for free trial
- Reviewed: September 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The user-friendly interface and visible features make it easy to use the functions. Additionally, the manual and automatic inspection features allow users to perform inspections as needed at their preferred time. Regular updates enable the system to respond to the latest vulnerabilities.

#### Cons

Like most antivirus programs, it consumes a significant amount of PC resources, especially during scans. Additionally, false positives may occur during inspections.

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### Trellix for Endpoint Security

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Turan A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

We gathered the structure that is followed in many branches under a single structure. As a process, management from a single point has become simpler and easier. Thanks to its customizable structure, we can make separate configurations for all processes. Our time and resource savings increased by 20-30%.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The Trellix brand emerged after the combination of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, two important players in the market. It has the ability to support multiple operating systems such as Linux, Mac, Windows. Thanks to its powerful XDR (threat detection and detection analysis), it is one step ahead of its peers. It has an active structure in all current management processes thanks to machine learning, threat intelligence and extensible structure. Prevention against ransom attacks, spy and malware protection, protection and firewall, internet and web protection, active protection, e-mail protection and DLP active features.

#### Cons

The administration panel has a complex structure. Having too many options for installation and configuration, this makes the user tiring.

#### Reasons for choosing Trellix Endpoint Security

We have provided a single program to manage all processes instead of several programs. In addition, its structure is much stronger and more robust.

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### Mcfeee Endpoint Security

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It was not entirely appropriate, although it is very stable (it does not generate any crash of the service). The protection against malware in real time is efficient but against viruses, they need to extend the database more against them. Uninstalling the agent is not necessary administrative privileges are needed, therefore it is not recommended for any end user.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

The solution can work silently. It allows to protect the mail electronic, web mail, peer-to-peer applications, instant messaging, communications via Skype, type of transfer (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Wi-Fi), media (USB, CD, DVD) , the printers, the fax. - Supervision: allow data transfer. - Prevention: block the transfer of data. - Alert: notification to administrators. - Encryption: guaranteed encryption before data transfer. - Quarantine: awaiting authorization.

#### Cons

It needs to improve the heuristic, it does not detect many low impact viruses that are detected and corrected by freeware versions of other antivirus. It consumes many resources and installs features separately executing several services, in my opinion these can be unified. The number of viruses it has in a database is relatively low. It needs to be more extensive according to the market of new threats in the network.

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### McAfee- The best Antivirus software

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: sameer c.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

To conclude, I would like to express my utmost satisfaction with this software, infact this software is so effective and helps run the laptop seamlessly that I have bought the same and installed it on my personal laptop. Big shout out for this software!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Well in these times of post COVID world, I have realized the value of McAfee and the ways it is keeping my laptop safe from external threats as we are not working on the organization's network. McAfee constantly scans all the external files I download everyday and blocks it from installing if the same contains any trojan or malware. The best part about the software that I like is the fact that it scans the my whole laptop very fastly without interrupting any other day to day process in my laptop. All I can say is since last 2 years I haven't seen any issue from my laptop from antivirus perspective, all thanks to the best antivirus installed in my system. Thanks McAfee for making our lives and work easier.

#### Cons

Well, though there are very minute negatives about this software, I would still like to highlight the fact that whenever we click on the "update now" feature on the top right corner of the web application, it takes quite a lot of time to download the updated software and reinstall the same on my laptop, because of this reason, I have kept my laptop idle in the night couple of times so that McAfee gets updated and reinstalled. Apart from this, I don't think there is any point that could be counted as a con for this particular software.

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### Protects operating systems, files, among others. Easy to manage, and agile to detect threats.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Maryorie H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

This software allows the integration of several endpoint protection technologies that help combat and analyze threats that can cause damage to computers, programs, files, emails and systems. McAfee Endpoint Security uses very advanced defenses that allow it to detect malicious actions before they are executed, that is, it deciphers the behaviors of suspicious actions that could cause damages such as viruses, adware, trojans, spyware, among others that attack the computer system. As for the management it is easy to manage, it allows the protection of the information that is kept in the files, and when you open the program with just a clicks you start to execute the protection, or you can program it, and for those who do not have as much knowledge of operating systems, McAfee Endpoint Security is compatible with Windows and Mac, among others.

#### Cons

It is a very good software, maybe it presents some problems of incompatibility, but it is more of a lack of knowledge of the one that installs on the requirements of the program than of the program itself.

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### Our Business Acquired 2 Major Viruses While Supposedly Protected By McAfee

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Mary Lee C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Writing and Editing
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I would not recommend McAfee because our business suffered major virus setbacks, despite safeguards, on the two separate occasions when McAfee was a primary security system. The second virus was so severe that everything saved to the lap top had to be wiped and the lap top reconditioned by Microsoft for us to ever use it again. Fortunately, we had most important material backed up, but it still caused a lot of trouble and a great deal of loss of time, which for a business connected to writing and editing, which operates always on deadlines, had an especially huge impact. By contrast, whenever we have operated with Norton as our main security provider (touch wood), we have not experienced any such severe infection. Equally, McAfee customer support, we found to be largely unhelpful, and had we not had customer support from Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, we would have been at a loss, as our company is too small to have a tech team of its own.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

McAfee Endpoint Security is, at least in theory, very extensive, covering a great deal in regards to threats and understanding threats, which is helpful.

#### Cons

Our business, which is small, maintains very high security settings, always keeping on top of updates and checks etc., and our few employees are very careful about virus protection and avoiding threats as much as possible. However, we rely on our security system. Twice we were for an extended period protected by McAfee, and on both occasions, not only were our laptops seemingly more susceptible to minor difficulties and the sorts of things that slow down the system/render it less reliable, we also ended up with two severe viruses.

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### High Quality of Preventing Threats of McAfee

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I highly recommend using McAfee for people who really love to download different online applications from many sources. Also, it is for business to protect customers and organization information. McAfee surely to keep your security at the highest protection from different threats and viruses.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

McAfee provides a solid wall to protect the technology devices away from threats. It gave me a high safety feeling to my laptop after using it for more than two years. In the past, I have downloaded many things from unknown websites, so I worry a lot about those securities. Since I used McAfee, my worries about them reduced significantly. Also, I have checked my laptop whenever I download something with McAfee. McAfee creates a trustworthy for users. Moreover, McAfee monitors your device to ensure they are normally operating. It is a reliable security software.

#### Cons

The appearance looks complicated to the first time users. Also, I can only use McAfee to scan viruses on my laptop without doing anything else because it will cause laggy to other activities performed at the same time.

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### McAfee Endpoint Security protects our business from outside attacks.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Top notch security that protects every device on the network!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It only takes one security breach at your business to realize that security software isn't an option. We upgraded to McAfee's Endpoint Security system, because the free programs weren't cutting it. They offer a variety of products that span from iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. All of your devices on your network can be protected. The difference in Endpoint is the enhanced detection and correction capabilities that can make alterations to security controls in Windows 10. McAfee notifies us of threats immediately when they are found, and we setup default actions for when that happens.

#### Cons

As you might expect, McAfee's Endpoint Security can be pricey. It depends fully on the needs of your business and would recommend you reach out to a member of their sales team to determine which features you need. They customize the software so you can rest-assured that all of the vulnerabilities will be taken care of. I did have a few interactions with customer support that were difficult. If you are new to the cyber security scene, you will need to ask them to put it in layman's terms.

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### "Tight security. Thumbs up"

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Oliver M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Simply industrious software. A tool that has given wholesome security and protection for our systems.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I can have a million reasons to like this software. It means a lot to me and my career. The cost is very reasonable considering the scoop of problems it helps to solve. The software itself is quite easy to use and involves some straight forward security features. Its reliability is very high and definitely gives accurate notifications.

#### Cons

Having used this software for long, I have been used to its features and I find it simple and easy to use. I have no complaints.

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### Good security, but not perfect

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Drew S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

McAfee has been a good security software for a while. The computers using this have not been impacted by any sort of ransomware or malware. One of our other offices did not use this and downloaded some ransomware that almost cost us years of files, but we contacted an emergency IT team who solved the problem and recommended better security.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

* We can use one account for all of the computers at our offices, so no need to buy individual licenses/programs for each one * Established program that is always updating and trying to stay ahead

#### Cons

* No security program is perfect. There are some threats that definitely go undetected by this. I use this in conjunction with a few free tools from Malwarebytes to keep all of the computers free of problems

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### The original AV for Business

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Christopher D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We've have had a positive experience with it. With growing pains, we were able to get it installed on our 2012 server, and checking for updates each day. It's very easy from the control panel to see what clients are out of date or which clients haven't checked in. It's very easy to push updates downstream and do it silently from the user. Would recommend for any business environment.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Easy to manage, migrate, and deploy software to network computers Easy to add additional users to subscription Easy to use admin panel to push down updates instead of having 100+ clients download updates individually.

#### Cons

Price - it can be pretty pricey as gaps in the software is for 1-25 users and then 25-50, so having 26 users causes you to pay for another 24 users you may not use. Setup can be a bit cumbersome if you don't designate a server or set one up, as you have to go in and manually turn off syncs and install it in stand-alone mode.

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