McAfee Mobile Security
McAfee Mobile Security offers an abundance of free options and a
paid tier that removes the ads from the app. sadly, not like the similar Avast
Mobile Security, the paid tier is pretty costly compared to different best
robot antivirus apps.
While McAfee has earned decent malware-protection scores in lab tests over the last few years, it hasn't matched the consistency of Bitdefender Mobile Security or Norton Mobile Security. Those cost, respectively, half the maximum amount and therefore the same price as McAfee's Premium tier.
Unless you're specifically swayed by the extras found in McAfee,
or are willing to place up with the ads and accompany the free version of the app, this app goes to be a troublesome sell for many people.
As with most of the antivirus products I tested, McAfee Mobile
Security relies on a freemium marketing model. McAfee offers a remarkably
sturdy free tier that has options like anti-theft and Wi-Fi security that area
unit additional generally restricted to paid tiers.
Malware protection
A Deep Scan of my Google Pixel 3 phone with McAfee took
approximately 3 seconds. Beyond being impressive, this made me wonder if
anything was actually happening. But as you will see, the app does have an
honest malware-detection rate.
McAfee's web protection is out there only to Premium
subscribers and it supports a couple of widely used browsers, including
Chrome, Samsung Internet, Opera Mini, and Firefox. Attempting to go to a
malicious test website produced a warning altogether supported browsers, with
the choices to either Keep Me Safe by navigating far away from the location, or
Open Anyway.
Malware performance
In third-party lab tests of malware-detection rates, McAfee
usually does alright, but its results are sometimes erratic and usually fall
just a touch below the absolute best.
In the most up-to-date evaluations conducted by German lab
AV-TEST, in July 2019, McAfee detected 99.9% of 3,347 "real-time"
threats encountered online and 100% of three,433 "widespread"
Android malware samples collected within the previous four weeks.
Those match the many Kaspersky Mobile Antivirus. Two other
products, Avast Mobile Security and Bitdefender Mobile Security, scored perfect
100% detection rates against both sorts of malware.
Google Play Protect lagged far behind, with terrible
detection rates of 44.1% of real-time malware and 54.7% of widespread malware,
rock bottom many July.
Most of the apps have pretty consistent scores from one
testing round to subsequent, but McAfee is an exception. It detected 100/100 in
May 2019, that is nice, but in March 2019, it detected only 99.5% real-time
malware and 99.1% of widespread malware.
That was still a touch before the industry average for the
19 apps tested in March: 97.8% for real-time and 98.2% for widespread malware.
But if you remove Google Play Protect's abysmal results, the March averages
raise to 99.7%/99.9%, and McAfee fell quite a bit under those numbers.
Free security features and
tools
Anti-Theft
McAfee Mobile Security features a solid collection of anti-theft features, even for users of the free version, with support for remotely triggering an alarm, locking your device, locate the device, taking an image with the Thief Cam, wiping your data and performing a full factory reset.
Memory
Booster
I'm never sold on these supposed performance enhancers. Operating systems do a reasonably good job handling this stuff on their own. a minimum of in my experience, McAfee's memory booster cleared out a negligible amount of memory, which might typically refill again briefly order.
My
Watch
Like the Bitdefender and Kaspersky antivirus apps, McAfee's can interact with a Wear OS smartwatch. McAfee's app can allow you to know when the watch gets out of Bluetooth range of the phone, and also notify you of an insecure Wi-Fi network or when the phone's battery gets low.
Privacy
Check
This feature is sort of a less-well-implemented version of the Privacy Report on Norton Mobile Security. It feeds you information about any app that you simply could also find within the app settings menu of your device. McAfee does sort your apps by the level of privacy concern and, at a particular threshold, puts them into a separate tab labeled Privacy Alerts.
Safe
Wi-Fi
This feature scans the Wi-Fi network to which you're connected to ascertain if it lacks a password or encryption. Safe Wi-Fi also will report if your Wi-Fi connection has been hijacked, but I used to be unable to check that feature.
Storage
Cleaner
Unlike
with Memory Boost, I feel there's validity to a storage cleaner, as I'm
regularly forgetting about some movie, show, or podcast I downloaded that would
easily be cleared off my device. Obviously, you'll do that yourself, but it's
convenient to ascertain all the potential trash in one place and to clear it
all away in only a couple of clicks.
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