Product Information

Offering twelve kinds of protection, McAfee Total Protection gives a totally comprehensive level of cover for your family. It works by shielding your PC 24/7, stopping intruders, spammers and identity thieves and protecting you from viruses, hackers and spyware. If you use WiFi, you’re also covered, as McAfee’s wireless protection system covers attacks from and to wireless users.

Key Features

The main features of McAfee Total Protection are:

• Prevents e-mail scams and spamming
• Makes the Internet safe for your children by assessing website content and safety
• Blocks and removes spyware from your system
• Improves your computer’s performance
• Stops viruses and hackers
• Warns you against entering sites which send spam and install adware
• Secures your identity and restores files
• Automatically monitors all Internet activity

System Requirements

• Supported instant messaging programs

• Microsoft® Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, Windows VISTA
• Windows 2000, XP Personal computer with Pentium-compatible processor 500 MHz or higher
• 256 MB RAM
• Windows Vista
• Personal computer with Pentium-compatible processor 800 MHz or higher
• 512 MB RAM
• 175 MB hard disk space (after installation; 275 MB hard disk space before installation)
• 800 X 600 or higher resolution
• Microsoft® .NET Framework version 1.1.4322
• Supported browser programs
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
• Mozilla® Firefox 1.5 or later
• Supported e-mail programs
• POP3 – Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, IncrediMail, Thunderbird; Japanese only: Shuriken, Becky, PostPet
• MAPI – Outlook
• Web – MSN/Hotmail, or e-mail account with POP3 access

• AOL Instant Messenger 2.1 or later
• Yahoo Messenger 4.1 or later
• Microsoft Windows Messenger 3.6 or later
• MSN Messenger 6.0 or later
• Required for toolbar plug-in
• Outlook Express 6.0 or later
• Thunderbird 1.5 or later
• Standard wireless network adapter
• Standard wireless router or access point (including popular Linksys®, NETGEAR®, D-Link®, Buffalo®, Belkin®, TRENDnet®, and other models

Editor Reviews

If you’re fed up and confused with having so many different antivirus programs, McAfee Total Protection has everything you could need. With all the essentials, including antivirus, anti spyware, firewall and parental controls, you’ll be covered for almost every eventuality. McAfee have installed a powerful antivirus in this version and spam protection is thorough, and features are easy to use, as they are all packed into a central Security Centre, and you can set Total Protection to Basic or Advanced, depending on the tools you need to use regularly.

Due to the sheer volume of features in Total Protection, beware that it may slow your system, as can happen with many programs like Total Protection. All in all, this is a comprehensive program offering everything you could need to protect your computer.

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