Its new interface will inevitably horrify a 'power user' who will have the impression of being taken by the hand all the time, but for a solution that is essentially aimed at 'technophobic' users, we can appreciate the guidance work and the coherence of the interface, both between the different screens and between the desktop and mobile versions. McAfee has made good progress with this new version and in the category of security suites truly designed for consumer users, it even ranks among the best. And this is what happens as McAfee then gets 100%.

AV Comparatives also performs a protection test on the same game, which evaluates the ability of the antivirus to effectively block the threat, knowing that it is not impossible that malware that is not detected by the analysis is still effectively blocked when it is executed and the behavioural detection comes into play. Switching to online scanning, and thus mobilising the McAfee cloud, increases to 99.6% detection, quite simply the best score in the ranking. There are worse (Trend Micro with only 41.1%) but this is a far cry from the 96% achieved by G Data. Distinguishing between the two cases measures the effectiveness of the solution without an Internet connection, and in this case McAfee is neither remarkable nor catastrophic with 82.5% of threats detected.

On this test, the lab runs several separate measurements, starting with an offline and online analysis on 10,029 common threats. The results are similar on AV Comparatives, starting with the September 2022 Malware Protection Test.

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