McAfee Free Antivirus Beta

I remember good old times when McAfee was light and had top notch detection. This looks promising, however is quite far from being employed on a production machine. I hope they make this work.

 

Good Evening! Just installed a new license for McAfee Anti-Virus Plus...and it's super light...and if anyone's interested Purplus has it sale priced for 1pc at $11.95...can't beat that. During install I bypassed the Site Advisor Browser Add-On and the Registry Cleaner App. Just the Anti-Virus and Firewall. Sincerely...Securon

 

After Win10 I find this another ill disguised tool for telemetry.

 

Yes exactly, it's the first thing that I remove.

LOL

 

I just installed it, and then removed it few minutes later. Not only did it make my computer run very slowly, as of right now there is no on demand scanning. There is only real time protection.

 

At least it uninstalled cleanly, IObit Uninstaller found no leftovers.

 

I have not used on-demand AV scanning in many years.

 

McAfee had been my first and favourite antivirus when I started using computers . I remember that I hated Nod32 that time...

I gave the beta version a trial in Virtual Box (Win10 Pro 64 bit, 4Gb RAM & 1 processing core).
It is doing a perfectly fine job. Lightweight, no on-demand scan till now, cute & minimal interface. Not sure about the firewall part. Installs Security Advisor.





It has a bug submission tool.



I did a brief amateurish test using malicious links for my own satisfaction, and the AV performed satisfactorily. Most of the links were blocked by site advisors, and if I explicitly allowed those, AV blocked almost everything (in my tiny sample set) except a few adwares.





I will keep a close eye on its development.

 

It needs a exclude option, its daft having a restore quarantined item option just for it to be immediately quarantined again.

 

McAfee webAdvisor is very good part, i installed this instead of Avira browser security (browser plugin) which i hate for its tracker function that blocks several images on websites.
Webadvisor is good at phishing site's and malware links, so for now i will use this WebAdvisor with Avira free AV

 

Sometimes when you restore an item from quarantine, the AV adds whitelist automatically. Btw, it doesn't even had the quarantine, or I missed to notice it.

I haven't used McAfee webAdvisor independently for long. But the part that comes with the Free AV is good with malware links and also has minimal impact on browser performance.

 

Tray icon is stupendously ugly. Like it was designed for Windows XP, scaled up and then down again and used for the app. When they can't be bothered with such things that sit there 24/7 in your field of view, you just know it's going to be of poor quality in general. Beta or not.

 

It's the most magnificent tray icon ever designed and a sure inidication of total, superior coding.

 

You missed it...It doesn't whitelist the restore and it doesn't have an exclude option, so its just restore, quarantine, restore, quarantine, restore, quarantine etc, not good even for a beta.

 

That's a bug the, report it. Good to know that there is a quarantine, though.

 

Hi all

McAfee Free Antivirus 0.5.115.1 Beta

http://download.beta.mcafee.com/betamcafee/Resources/NextGenAV/McAfeeFreeAVInstLight.exe

 

McAfee Cloud Beta Failed to install!..

 

Got a new update today, with revised GUI. There is now a on-demand scan option.

It seems everytime the program updates (not that often), it changes my default search to a McAfree brander Yahoo. I have to figure out how to stop that.

 

Now this looks properly good. Tray icon is still a bit rubbish, but the main interface was heavily updated. Only thing that doesn't make sense is quarantine and restoration. You can restore files, but since there is no exclusion, it'll just detect them back right again.

And what I hate is that you have to actually execute the file in order to get detection. At least that's what happens with EICAR...

Here is the new GUI...

 

@RejZoR I haven't tested the latest build, but in the previous build it detected malicious files on-access.


Edit: I was wrong. I indeed executed those files.

 

Hi all

McAfee Cloud AV 0.5.142.2 Beta

http://download.beta.mcafee.com/betamcafee/Resources/NextGenAV/McAfeeFreeAVInstLight.exe

 

Anyone have any further comments/news/updates on this?

 

Just installed the version as posted by Mops21 (post 46) and low and behold there is a restore for quarantined items..I just ran a scan and had two false positives (details not relevant ) and was able to restore them via an option..I haven't bothered running the scan again to test if they're actually whitelisted now but I'd hope they are.



EDIT:

I rescanned and the same files were quarantined again..So they are NOT whitelisted...Grrrr.

 

Which version webadvisor is in cloud AV beta ?

When download standalone webadvisor, i receive no blockpage warning anymore (in FF or Chrome v 4.0.0 ) but when check options it shows high red website .... its acting very weird.

 

Will it be available for free after beta?