![]() Unlike those contenders, though, McAfee made our test machine slower to boot to the desktop, up from 16 seconds to 21 seconds, and added a further 27 seconds of additional CPU activity thereafter. It’s not that McAfee’s RAM footprint is particularly offensive: pushing our test system’s footprint up from 590MB to 688MB, it had a similar impact to this month’s other contenders. McAfee Internet Security 2010 detected 89% of this month’s malware, some way behind the 95% achieved by Avira and our A-List choice Norton Internet Security 2010. Sadly, in that same Labs we found that McAfee’s malware detection engines weren’t quite in the top rank, and on the evidence of this month that remains the case. On the upside, McAfee Internet Security 2010 retains the SiteAdvisor technology that we appreciated so much in our last security Labs: rather than mindlessly blacklisting websites, SiteAdvisor gives you information such as whether a site is actively hosting malware or has merely been known to in the past, enabling you to make an informed decision as to whether to proceed. ![]() Probably the biggest new feature is online backup – your licence gives you 1GB, but you can upgrade to unlimited storage for £34 exc VAT per year. Likewise, the notebook-friendly option to perform scans only when the computer is connected to the mains is welcome, but was already available from Norton, Eset and others.
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