McAfee Total Protection 2016
Intel’s McAfee Total Protection 2016 is the latest incarnation of the company’s internet security suite, and is particularly flexible in protecting a wide range of your desktop and mobile devices.
There are only so many ways you can present the information from an IS suite and Total Protection has the virtue of simplicity, though not much visual flair. The initial display shows the status of virus, spyware, email and web protection, and offers big buttons to add McAfee to other machines. It can offer this because Total Protection covers unlimited devices.
This means that, for personal use, you can add to your McAfee account whatever mix of PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices you want, though the PC protection is the most comprehensive. Setting up protection on extra devices is made easier by the My Network function, which examines and reports on all available machines connected to your local network.
From your McAfee account page online, you can obtain links for the Android and iOS versions of the software, which are broken down into a confusing number of apps. There are seven listed in Google Play and none have the name offered on the account page. McAfee Security and Power Booster is your best bet and offers a find device app, online backup and a battery optimiser, as well as a security scan, privacy and web security applications.
Also new to this version of Total Protection is a QuickClean tool, which removes fragmented and temporary files, and a social media guard, which extends internet link checks to those you include in twitter, facebook and the like. McAfee claims that the parental controls are a new feature, though they were available in last year’s release.
True Key is now available, though not currently integrated with Total Protection. It’s a separate download and is free for anybody, customer or not, though here you get five user accounts. It’s an online ‘identity manager’, that uses biometric measures such as fingerprint or facial recognition. It removes the need to remember