McAfee blocked 98.2 percent of threats, and had two false positives. Over at AV-Comparatives, the testing firm’s most recent Real World Protection Test comes from July and August 2020, using 380 samples of live URLs with malicious downloads. McAfee Total Protection’s VPN feature powered by TunnelBear. For the detection of widespread and prevalent malware, Total Protection also scored 100 percent in both months. Moving on to third-party testing, AV-Test gave McAfee 100 percent in July 2020 and 100 percent in August on its zero-day test-the industry average is 97 percent. Anytime software, especially security software, does something unexpected, it leads to less trust by the end user, not more.
If you’re interrupting an everyday workflow and forcing a user to do something they don’t want to do, you’ve made the wrong design decision.Īlso, True Key definitely shouldn’t be wiping out the browser’s saved logins-that’s just infuriating for an end user. There’s no reason for True Key to be any different. We’ve never seen this behavior from 1Password, Dashlane, or LastPass. We asked McAfee about this and were told that the design was deliberate. Never mind the fact that our login process wasn’t finished since both times we still had to enter a two-factor authentication code, or the fact that advanced users don’t need this kind of hand holding. Then once we landed on a social site and logged in True Key took over the site (as pictured here), and basically said, “Do you see how amazing that was? Now let’s go back to the True Key landing page.” There was no option to dismiss the browser takeover, and this forced return to True Key happened twice. That’s a problem since promoted tweets almost never have a link in the text and display only a clickable Twitter Card (site preview). Apparently, with Twitter, Web Advisor only checks URLs within the text of a tweet. We didn’t see it have much success in Facebook or YouTube, however, and Twitter was hit or miss. McAfee Web Advisor had no trouble checking and rating links in Instagram and Reddit. This feature isn’t quite where it should be, however. In theory, every link is granted either a green checkmark indicating it’s safe, or a warning icon if the URL raises concerns.
It has the ability to check links on a wide array of social sites, including Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Web Advisor received some new social networking protection updates. Oddly, however, McAfee’s Web Boost feature, which halts autoplay videos, doesn’t automatically detect the new Chromium-based Edge. McAfee’s Web Advisor now detects and installs itself in the new Edge browser, as does the password manager True Key. Some of the biggest security additions for this year’s version of Total Protection are in the Web section.
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