Customer Ratings & Reviews

Hey guys I've recently tried out McAfee's Privacy & Identity Guard Online Protection and thought I'd share my two cents on it, this isn't just your ordinary antivirus – it's a suite aimed at keeping your digital identity safe and sound. **EASE OF USE** Getting started with McAfee was a breeze, the setup didn't have me jumping through hoops, and navigating the interface was intuitive enough that I didn't need a manual to figure things out. Whether you're on your phone or laptop, Android or iOS, the process is pretty straightforward. **FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE** Now let's talk about what this bad boy can do. McAfee's identity monitoring is pretty thorough, watching over a laundry list of personal details from your Social Security number to your credit cards, although it doesn't cover everything under the sun like postal records, it's got a keen eye on the dark web and data breaches, which is where a lot of the sketchy stuff goes down. Personal data cleanup is a gem, especially if you're not keen on your details being peddled by data brokers, if it finds your info on the dodgy corners of the web, it'll scrub it off for you, a feature that's as rare as it is reassuring. On the flip side, the service isn't perfect. While it's vigilant about certain aspects of your online presence, there are areas it doesn't monitor, like criminal records or payday loan databases, also, there's no app specifically for this service, which could be a bit of a downer if you like managing things on the go. **COMPATIBILITY** Jumping over to compatibility, McAfee's been a champ across my tech collection, whether I'm on my Android phone, iPad, or MacBook, it's like a one size fits all kind of deal, no weird glitches or temper tantrums from any of my devices, it's like having that one friend who can mingle with all your different circles without any drama. **PRICING** Talking dollars and sense, McAfee's pricing is a mixed bag, the initial three months felt like a steal, given the peace of mind I got, but when renewal time comes around, and that $100 price tag pops up, it makes you think twice. Sure, it's not pocket change, but considering it's guarding your digital treasures, it might just be worth the investment. **CUSTOMER SUPPORT** Let me get this straight, nobody calls customer support for fun, but on the rare occasion I had to ring them up, McAfee's folks were on the ball, they weren't just reading off a script; they actually knew their stuff, it's like having a tech savvy buddy on speed dial. **PROS AND CONS** Alright, let's break it down. PROS FIRST: the personal data cleanup is top notch, like having a digital broom for your online mess, the $1 million insurance is no joke either, it's like having a safety net made of cash. CONS: It's not all rainbows, the no go on stuff like criminal records monitoring is a bummer, and the price hike after three months might make you sweat a bit, also the lack of a dedicated app is like having a sports car without a key fob. **CONCLUSION** In the grand scheme of things, McAfee's Privacy & Identity Guard is like that reliable neighbor who keeps an eye on your place, it's not going to stop every would be digital intruder, but it's vigilant where it counts, for the tech savvy crowd that doesn't mind the manual check-ins, it's a solid pick. **PERSONAL EXPERIENCE** Now, I haven't had my identity swiped (knock on wood), but knowing McAfee's got my back makes me sleep easier. It's like having a watchdog that doesn't need to be walked. It's not cheap, and the watchdog might miss a spot or two, but it's still a darn good pup to have around.

This is my first time getting any sort of protection like this and it was quite enlightening. But the idea of giving a single app literally all your personal data is INCREDIBLY nerve wracking. Like I almost didn’t wanna go through with it. The thought kept entering my mind, this single company could have a data breech and then I’m skeee…ruuuddde! Luckily it claims to have all the standard protections and more to keeping your identity secure. The interface is easy to use, and the program does an excellent job of explaining everything in a way that's easy to understand. However due to the fact it’s web based I often found myself wishing it were an app on my computer and would notify me. Luckily, after a few days I realized that there is a mobile app to address this. The mobile app is decent and easy to navigate. Provides enough detail on everything to be a useful tool but is far less comprehensive than the website is. It will at least notify you on breeches. Addressing the breeches on your phone via the app is also not as streamlined as it is on PC/Mac via a web browser. You could access it on your mobile web browser too and honestly found that pretty darn good, but the problem again is notifications. It will email you about new breaches, but I enjoy push notifications from apps. The interface also splits up into two major groups. Privacy focused stuff and Identity monitoring. Privacy is more exciting, and the identity monitoring was more of a chore for me. With Identity Monitoring, was going through dealing with breeches, etc. Privacy however was cooler… I think. One of the things I like most about the McAfee Privacy & Identity Guard is that it gives you a score for your online security and privacy, a way to kind of gamify your privacy. This score is based on a few factors and from what I can tell, some other factors that I haven’t discovered yet. The obvious ones are addressing breached passwords, reading about breached information, like your phone number or addresses, and acknowledging your SSN breaches and handling their recommended steps to secure yourself. There’s also an automated “online identity scrubber” that tries to remove you from online databases. I suspect my score will go up after that is completed, but it states it can take up to a whopping 30 to 45 days to complete. To be honest this is the most intriguing part of this. I’d love to wipe my presence from online searches. They call this the “Personal Data Cleanup” and it’s a service they provide. You don’t have to do it yourself. The amount of data some of these sites had on me were CRAZY. It had my family information, aunts, uncles, parents, siblings, addresses, social media accounts, etc. NUTS. Luckily I haven't screwed someone over enough to want to get me. But the sheer amount of info that was on these sites, crazy. The best part is IT'LL DO IT ALL FOR ME. I still have a bunch of time before I can see the results of it, but I'm hoping it'll succeed. I'm currently at a 620 on the McAfee scale, and I'm trying to get it higher, but as I alluded to earlier, I don’t know what the steps are to do that outside what I’ve already done. One thing that I found odd about this service is that it recommended that I delete my Amazon account. I understand that Amazon has a lot of information on me, but I'm not sure I'm ready to delete that account just yet. I get why it’s marked it as a high-risk account, but I don’t think I could do that. Much like I wouldn’t be able to delete my Best Buy account or say Spotify account. They’re services that I actively use and I feel like it would inconvenience my life more so than the x% it improved my security/privacy. My suggestion to McAfee would be to suggest ways to secure your life for these high risk accounts so you can live with it and maximize your security and privacy. Suggest a stronger password, and give examples, ship to a pick up center instead of your home, using burner credit cards instead, etc. Overall, I think this McAfee product is a great tool for anyone who wants to improve their online security and privacy. It's easy to use and it does a great job of explaining everything in a way that's easy to understand. The UI is super easy to navigate, and it offers I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is concerned about their online security and privacy and wants to take back control of their personal info. Ultimately I gave it a 4 star instead of a perfect 5 is because it's hard to listen to all the recommendations and it says I can improve my score by doing these steps, but when I open that section, literally nothing is there. I already did them. So it's give you a sense that it's not fully flushed out or that you are indeed working with a program that isn't that aware of itself. But still, highly recommended. It was a darn good first impression.

I wanted to try out McAfee’s new Privacy and Identity Guard as I wanted something to check out my information fully. There’s nothing to install, and is all web based so there’s nothing to run on your computer with this, and you can sign in from any browser. The Privacy and Identity Guard advertises that it has Personal Data Cleanup, Online Account Cleanup, Identity monitoring, and McAfee Protection Score. After ordering all you have to do is set up your account “if you don’t already have one” and activate with the provided license emailed after purchase. 1st, the Personal Data Cleanup really surprised me, and according to their information out of 40 sites they regularly monitor as “data brokers” I had information on 36 of them “I’ve been online for a long time”, and one of those sites “I double checked”, had information on me going back to the mid 1990s, wow. I was really surprised just how much of my information was on those sites. I do like that McAfee shows that they requested my information to be removed from all those sites and will keep the portal updated as they respond back. They’ll also provide me the information on how to manually request my information be removed in case any of those refuse the requests. 2nd, the Online Account Cleanup amazed me, it showed me sites that I hadn’t used in years and still had my information, “almost 800 of them :O “, it lets you click on each one to be taken to the site so you can see if you can remove that information yourself. Luckily a lot of those site I’ve not used in 5+ years and my passwords and information has changed enough to where nothing there ought to be valid for a hacker. 3rd the Identity monitoring is a welcome plus, as I already have it through my tax software company and at least this is another added level of protection. I can also set up alerts to let me know if any of the parameters are met/broken. So far nothing has come back on this but it’s nice to know that active monitoring is there and working. 4th the McAfee Protection Score just gives you a score based on how much you are monitoring and cleaning up. The more information you give them and the more effort you put into cleaning up its alerts the higher your score goes. It’s a good measure to keep you trying to get a high score. Conclusion: In all I’m very impressed with just how much of my information this found out on the web, “including very old information” that I really don’t want anyone to be able to just look up. And with McAfee requesting the removal of that information from those sites and providing me the information on how to request it if they refuse is a huge plus. The rest of the stuff included like the online account cleanup was really helpful. Even though a huge chunk of the almost 800 sites listed were old and closed it’s nice to know just who is still hanging onto that information. I’m going to have a lot of work cut out cleaning up those old accounts. They also show you how many data breaches your information was on and lists them so you can go in and work on cleaning those up, “making that a priority. With all the other monitoring and identity sites out there it’s hard to know who would be the best one. In my opinion I’ll stick with the McAfee Privacy and Identity Guard as it’s affordable and did an extremely good job of identifying all my information that’s floating around the web. So if you are trying to choose, do take a look at Privacy and Identity Guard, it’s well worth the money.

As someone who has been the victim of Identity Theft before, I was really interested in this. I've subscribed to Identity Theft protection in the past, but didn't feel like it alerted me to problem areas before they became problems. But, I really like that this service provides Identity Theft monitoring and Privacy protection. I feel the price for both of these services is an excellent value. Some of the other companies charge more just for the ID theft, including the one that I used in the past. In addition, I already own Internet Security and VPN software, which this doesn't provide, so I only have to pay for what I need. The setup was simply and the website guides you through everything fairly well. Once I activated my subscription, I just had to create my account and follow the tasks presented in the Home screen. There is also an App that you can install on your Android or IOS device. You enter your personal information and financial information to setup the Identity Monitoring. Once I completed that, it immediately showed me where my information was found in recent data breaches. You then review and resolve each one to boost your overall protection score. One strange thing about the website and the App is that every time you go into the Home screen, it constantly displays a warning "Attention Needed" under data breaches. However, when you click it, there aren't any new data breaches and the one I had been shown initially had already been resolved. Other than that, the ID Theft monitoring works in the background and will inform you of any new data breaches. The next thing you setup is the Privacy protection and it allows you to request removal of your personal information from the data broker sites where you are listed. This automatically runs every 3 months and looks for your personal information on the data broker websites. It then prompts you to review each profile it found and you can request they remove your personal information, which McAfee all does behind the scenes. If this stops some of my spam calls, this may be worth the cost of the McAfee subscription alone. It takes 30-45 days for the information to be removed and you are notified of when each broker has completed that. In addition, you can have the Privacy look for "Risky Accounts". To do this, you have to give it access to your email. (After spending 24-hours researching what they do with that, I finally agreed to give them access.) Once you set it up, it then quickly finds current and unused accounts you have setup (i.e., department stores, websites, etc.). It also classifies them into High Risk, Rarely Used, and Financial Data. It then provides information on how to delete accounts you don't need or use, in order to limit your exposure to potential data breaches. I found with this you have to look at each account and determine if you still use it and if you feel it is risky or not for you. For example, one of the sites it said was risky was Amazon, which I need. But, it did show me accounts I no longer used and had forgotten about. So, I am requesting those accounts be closed and deleted. Overall, I feel this works very well and the price is excellent. There are some quirky things about the website and App. But, the actual behind the scenes Identity Theft monitoring and online privacy protection is very comprehensive. I highly recommend this, especially at this price.

This is review of McAfee Privacy & Identify Guard This is mostly to interpret as service rather than a software itself. The service of identifying identity risk and clean up is the main point via easy way with a membership. Although it sound obvious, the service at glance is good in term of ease to navigate through the options and enter personal information that might been compromised. The type of information the application ask is personal email, telephone number and personal name. These are part of Security Center options that provide three category of service: Identity Monitory, Personal Data Clean Up, Identity Restoration. For Identity Monitory, it is basically a one place to see what type of personal information by what site and possibly what organization that has had breach. It shows data reference like “personal phone number” breached by Organization Name or Website/Business Name. i.e “phone number” by Experian to name most know public case. Similarly can see personal email in same format. In the application can see the full picture by Type of Breach summary which list types All, Email Breaches, Phone number breaches, Social Security number breaches, Tax ID breaches, Passport breaches, Driver license breaches, Credit card breaches, Bank Account breaches, Health Id breaches, Username Breaches, Date of birth breaches. For the review, I only have used email and phone number type to learn how effective is the service. Within the same, it has a second section that allow to see addressed breaches. This is summary of the breaches that has been cleared out and set manually by user as Mark as Addressed. Not automatically associated with the service from Personal Data Cleanup. For Personal Data Clean up, upon entering personal email and name, phone number, it lookup for breached business or sites and organization, and return the full list that the service find. With the option Auto Protection on, it provide the service to automatically scanning for the user profile with given data by user and request for removal. In the UI, it provide a summary list of In Progress of the request for clean up and second report under Removed. During the process of setting initially, the application would show warning that the clean up would take several weeks, (I can’t remember if exactly the message refereed to between 4 weeks to 8 weeks or more) . But as for this review, I started about two weeks about and still shows In Progress with Zero Removed. On the topic of automatically scanning, it is done not every day, it scan every certain schedule date. For instance, as of this review, it shows that last scan was 08.15 2023 14:54PM EST and next scan is 11.09.2023 12:38PM EST. Have to say quite precision on the scanning information and quite wide range between last time and next time scanning considering how frequent is the data breach occurrs. The service of Identity Restoration, this is a manual and hands on process requiring to make call to a specialist and provide Identity Theft coverage up to $1,000,000. But not clear from the product “McAfee Privacy & Identify Guard” includes this as checking upon its referred plan site, it is included in McAfee + Advanced, and McAfee+ Ultimate and each provide different amount of coverage up to $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 with different terms and conditions. . On the other hand, of home or car insurance policy or via credit card might already have it. But come to notice that the coverage amount is not worst in the market. In conclusion, the service give access to see which businesses/organization has unauthorized data as result of data breach. It is easy to use for this purpose, but the aspect of removal clean data service that would be the most needed solution can’t tell immediately nor have assurance that it is cleaned up as it take time and breaches repeat over time. In fact entering personal key data for data clean didn’t make me feel safe as McAfee itself could be the same giving away the data as performing the clean up, although I think this is not unique to McAfee. And the service for identity restoration demand additional call effort and doesn’t seem very different to what is offered in the market except of coverage and its terms and condition. Hence it is average as individual service but needed to have on hand in today’s world.

Identity and Privacy Protection should be of great concern to anyone using the internet, and this software is designed to grab the bull by the horns and methodically wrestle it to the ground. Using it to the best effect requires time and patience, and the gratification may not be instant. The more details you can provide, the better the monitoring, and the more complete the protection. Name, date of birth, address, social security number, etc. You plug those into the program, and it searches for accounts and websites where your personal information is recorded and reports the results back to you. Old online accounts, for example, were rounded up by this program, many of which I did not recall or had never heard of. It found approximately 36 password breaches- where information had been exposed online. The cure was go to the respective website and manually change the passwords, or, where the account was no longer being used, to delete the account. I am still working on those. In other instances, old and dated information was found on multiple websites. I mashed a button to clean those up and was told it would take 30 to 45 days for the information to be deleted. I will have to wait to find out the specifics. The program does not indicate whether I will be notified and updated when the change is complete, or exactly what got removed or modified. I also had the program perform a search for “risky accounts”. I pressed the button, and the dial spun around for several turns. The final report showed that no risky accounts were found. I checked again later, and the program returned the same result. One question that I have about the results is that when you enter your name, you provide your full name, middle name, if you have one, and your last name and any suffixes. So, if your name was “James Brandon Smith”, does the program check for accounts and data for “Jim Smith” and/or “James Smith” and/or “James B. Smith” and/or J.B. Smith, depending on whatever common and routine aliases you may have or use? I assume there is a provision for adding all the variations that a user may have, to make the final results the most complete and reassuring. My subscription extends for one year, and credit card information can be added to automatically renew it. The program allows you to specify a plethora of information to be monitored: up to 10 credit cards, 10 bank accounts, 10 email addresses, etc. You can have your social security number and EIN numbers monitored as well. Based on the details I provided, and the clean-up sweeps I performed, I was given a protection score of 535 out of 1000, which was rated by the program as “Fair”. The score could be improved by adding more data to monitor, and re-checking under to find additional breaches. The subscription allows you to use several devices on the same subscription on Windows and Mac PC’s, iPhone and Android smartphones, and tablets. To get the full benefit of this service, you will have to part with lots of personal information and follow many accounts. My use has not proceeded to that level, but those features are there if you want them. In concept, the resources are all there. In use, it will take time to see how well they will ultimately work.

McAfee back in the day was just know for virus protection. They have evolved with the times and have changed the services they provide. This package has identified personal information on line and other threats. It scans the web and provides different recommendations to protect yourself from identity threats. These days data breaches are such a comment event that I get so many notifications of my personal information is all over the place. From cell phone carriers to email accounts to other websites that you shop on. Super frustrating.... It was straight forward. Create a login put in your personal information for the different categories. After that the program runs various algorithms and spits out a report on what to do to take steps to mitigate those issues. It took all but 10 minutes or so to get set up and do the scan. The. About 30 mins to fix the issues identified. Bottom line with all of the hacking and cyber crimes occuring I would highly recommend this product for another line of defense in addition to best practice to be mindful of what you do online. With that, I would recommend this product for what it says it does.

As a member of BestBuy's Tech Insider Network, I received a free trial of this new software from McAfee, famous for its Anti-virus software products. This is a web based subscription service that will scour the "dark web" for your data, as well as data broker sites, who make their money from the sale of personal information that exist in "public records". If you have ever tried to look up a high school classmate, or the whereabouts of a former neighbor, you have undoubtedly run into these Data Brokers, offering the inside scoop about anyone, for a fee. The names of these are likely familiar to you: Spokeo, 411Find, etc. and they purport to offer data important for background check of someone who you might be interviewing for a job, or as a caretaker, etc. for your own security. 
 The “dark web” aspect is something that I certainly have heard of, where illegal identity theft data can be purchased. This is the network whereby your credit card numbers, Social Security number, bank account numbers and login passwords, etc. can all be purchased. Alas, I was the victim of an identity theft several years ago, where someone in Indiana filed and received an income tax return in my name in January. I did not find out about this until I tried to file in March via TurboTax. It was TurboTax that guided me through getting this all worked through. That event changed a lot of our personal habits about passwords, email phishing attempts, etc. But nonetheless, we got a call from one credit card issuer last week about a charge that they thought to be fraudulent, at a store in Kansas (we live in New Hampshire and have never visited Kansas). Indeed, it was fraudulent, and they are sending a new card with new numbers, etc. So everyone is vulnerable. With this background, I was very interested in a trial of this subscription service from McAfee. We both think that we are quite cautious and diligent about our online footprint. We don’t reuse passwords, use a password manager to generate complex 12 digit passwords. We use two factor identification at every website that supports it, especially to bank or brokerage accounts. We do regular backups of our computers and cell phones, both to a physical hard drive and to iCloud. But still we had a credit card number compromised. We have an anti malware software that scans the hard drive daily. So what is it that McAfee is purporting to provide with this product. Per their advertising, the following: 1) Monitor We continuously monitor for threats to your identity on the dark web and activity on your credit. 2) Alert We'll alert you of any info found on the dark web and credit activity and provide guidance of actions to take to secure your accounts 3) Resolve If you become a victim of identity theft, a licensed identity restoration expert will work with you to fix it. 4) Reimburse We'll reimburse funds stolen due to identity theft per your protection plan.* [That Asterix applies to a premium level of subscription, at an additional cost] How does identity monitoring work? We monitor your personal info for breaches so you can take action to secure your accounts before they can be used for possible identity theft. My experience with the program, over the last 4 weeks: Once you sign up for the service, you enter your vital statistics, such as date of birth, current address, social security number, bank account and routing numbers, credit card numbers, etc. It requires a great deal of faith to put all of this info into one company's info banks. Very quickly, a list of data breaches that included one or another parts of my profile was generated and supplied to me as a list for action. Many, perhaps most, of the security alerts had to do with breaches from over 5 years ago, back when I kept my passwords on one index card, etc. Since that time, I have instituted multiple habits, most notably a quality Password manager that generates passwords, automatically will scan your list and will upon your request automatically change any password on your list that has such a facility (many sites do not cooperate, so have to be done manually), notifies you if you have a legacy password that you have duplicated and offers to changes those, and works seamlessly with your web browser to prompt and enter your passwords from your stored account. This list was perhaps of little current importance, given the years that have passed. McAfee states that I was impacted by 5 Luxxotica breaches from 2017 - 2019. Clicking through this part of nearly ancient history was un-rewarding, since I don’t currently have any account with that Italian eyeglass conglomerate. They had no history of an online account, so changing my password was not even possible. I also had a notice about a German soccer league web page, that was involved in a breach years ago. Trying to investigate this, the web page was in German (which I have no experience with), and I am not a soccer fan (other than Ted Lasso, of course), so really assume this purported breach was an error. Upon initially installing the software from the McAfee web page, I got an animated screen that said something to the effect that “we are searching the web for potential breeches”. I had no idea how long such a process should take, so I left it running on my browser. Checking back periodically, throughout the day, still showing the animation. The next morning, same story, so I contacted the support link and received a prompt reply to exit the program, and restart. I guess that should have been intuitive, but it would have been nice (if this is a common event) to have the screen state something like “if this is taking more than XX minutes, exit and retry”. Indeed, exiting and restarting the program was much quicker at digging up the archive of old breeches and presence of some or another piece of my biographical history or a phone number on a "data broker" site. The promised remedy of McAfee is that they will contact the brokers of your personal information and request removal of same. Perhaps this will work with Data Brokers, but my limited understanding of the Dark Web evil-doers is that they really don’t play nice in the sandbox, and work outside the realm of any security corporation's polite requests. So the value of this process is dubious when trying to shield from the Dark Web, and not sure it is worth a subscription fee to McAfee. I can get the same information from Dashlane or OnePass, plus all the extra helpful utilities to keep your info and passwords private that these passwords managers offer. The software activation on my MacBookAir was for a browser based membership. This included an iPhone app, accomplishing similar functions on the mobile phone as were available on the computer. But it seems to let you work through your list of compromised passwords while sitting in the waiting room or riding the subway, so a good use of otherwise downtime. There is a McAfee Online Account cleanup module, that promises to help you close and expunge all accounts that you no longer use, but remain in their data bank, such as contact and credit card information. However, when I ran this module it only identified one such company, listed as “low risk”, and that was Google. I really do not think that I want to close my Google account, and loose the variety of programs and modules they offer: calendar, search, email, electronic payments, and the Authenticator which actually protects your accounts that you log in to, by offering a pretty robust 2 factor authentication. The data insecurity results presented to me was a collection of data breeches and presence of my info on the sites of data brokers. McAfee will put in a request for removal, which will take from 45 -60 days, with a re-scan occurring every three months. I was present on 43 sites, although some were name variants of the same company. Others are the usual sites that promise to list for you (for a fee) with all the dirt on a person, given their name and city, you can find out all arrests, financial shortfalls, divorces, etc. Spokeo, FreeBackgroundCheck, and 411Locate were a few that I recall from occasions when trying to find the current address of a high school classmate, etc. Indeed, McAfee's request to these actual legitimate, although somewhat sleazy, companies to remove my data might well be heeded. I'll hear back from McAfee in 45-60 days about the progress. On the plus side, unlike some antivirus software that I have used in the past, the program did not noticeably slow down my computer. Since it is not a separate program running all the time in the background, but rather a web based application, the computer was not obviously impaired by the presence of the software. To achieve "good enough" security, follow the advice of WireCutter, with these steps: Be careful what you click and install Don’t turn off automatic updates Enable FileVault Enable the built-in firewall Back up your files Use a login password (and enable Touch ID if you can) Consider a guest account Delete software you don’t need Audit your privacy permissions

Rating on the basis of the offering present here, though not the particular subscription level. This is a unique data protection tool, especially with regards to data broker cleanup (thru a trusted brand) and online account cleanup. I bought this as a sort of trial primarily for the online account cleanup, as there are few other tools out there that can do the same. Note this is just a scan at this subscription level, which was bought as a sort of trial as the price was so low. Note you can buy higher tier McA products with an automated version included, which this has made me interested in. The data broker cleanup has been rapid, although it is unclear how broad a range of brokers is covered. Plus it's nice this side is automated at this level.

McAfee® Privacy & Identity Guard is a product designed to enhance the safety of your devices, credit cards, bank accounts, tax ID, driver's licenses & health ID's. But, before you decide to drop your hard earned dollars for this Privacy & Identity Guard, here are a few concerns: 1- No Free Trial. If you want to try this product to see if it is worth the cost, McAfee requires you buy it in advance in order to hook you up. They offer a 30 Day Refund, but exercising that option is not an easy task. 2- Even after you purchase McAfee Privacy & Identity Guard, you cannot activate the product until you give McAfee your credit card & sign up for automatic annual renewal! The activation page states that you can "cancel at any time". I decided to cancel my automatic annual renewal immediately after activating the product, to provide a year of experience, after which I may or may not choose to renew the subscription. Cancelling the automatic renewal was a very tedious process & required assistance from Customer Service. If McAfee® Privacy & Identity Guard is a worthy investment, why make it so difficult to obtain the advertised refund? When I was finally able to cancel the Auto Renewal, a pop up ad came on constantly requesting me to sign up again and again. CONCLUSION: I entered all personal data, banking information & credit cards on Mac OS & received this reply: "Great news! You don't have any new breaches." That is a relief!

This is my first time getting any sort of protection like this and it was quite enlightening. But the idea of giving a single app literally all your personal data is INCREDIBLY nerve wracking. Like I almost didn’t wanna go through with it. The thought kept entering my mind, this single company could have a data breech and then I’m skeee…ruuuddde! Luckily it claims to have all the standard protections and more to keeping your identity secure. The interface is easy to use, and the program does an excellent job of explaining everything in a way that's easy to understand. However due to the fact it’s web based I often found myself wishing it were an app on my computer and would notify me. Luckily, after a few days I realized that there is a mobile app to address this. The mobile app is decent and easy to navigate. Provides enough detail on everything to be a useful tool but is far less comprehensive than the website is. It will at least notify you on breeches. Addressing the breeches on your phone via the app is also not as streamlined as it is on PC/Mac via a web browser. You could access it on your mobile web browser too and honestly found that pretty darn good, but the problem again is notifications. It will email you about new breaches, but I enjoy push notifications from apps. The interface also splits up into two major groups. Privacy focused stuff and Identity monitoring. Privacy is more exciting, and the identity monitoring was more of a chore for me. With Identity Monitoring, was going through dealing with breeches, etc. Privacy however was cooler… I think. One of the things I like most about the McAfee Privacy & Identity Guard is that it gives you a score for your online security and privacy, a way to kind of gamify your privacy. This score is based on a few factors and from what I can tell, some other factors that I haven’t discovered yet. The obvious ones are addressing breached passwords, reading about breached information, like your phone number or addresses, and acknowledging your SSN breaches and handling their recommended steps to secure yourself. There’s also an automated “online identity scrubber” that tries to remove you from online databases. I suspect my score will go up after that is completed, but it states it can take up to a whopping 30 to 45 days to complete. To be honest this is the most intriguing part of this. I’d love to wipe my presence from online searches. They call this the “Personal Data Cleanup” and it’s a service they provide. You don’t have to do it yourself. The amount of data some of these sites had on me were CRAZY. It had my family information, aunts, uncles, parents, siblings, addresses, social media accounts, etc. NUTS. Luckily I haven't screwed someone over enough to want to get me. But the sheer amount of info that was on these sites, crazy. The best part is IT'LL DO IT ALL FOR ME. I still have a bunch of time before I can see the results of it, but I'm hoping it'll succeed. I'm currently at a 620 on the McAfee scale, and I'm trying to get it higher, but as I alluded to earlier, I don’t know what the steps are to do that outside what I’ve already done. One thing that I found odd about this service is that it recommended that I delete my Amazon account. I understand that Amazon has a lot of information on me, but I'm not sure I'm ready to delete that account just yet. I get why it’s marked it as a high-risk account, but I don’t think I could do that. Much like I wouldn’t be able to delete my Best Buy account or say Spotify account. They’re services that I actively use and I feel like it would inconvenience my life more so than the x% it improved my security/privacy. My suggestion to McAfee would be to suggest ways to secure your life for these high risk accounts so you can live with it and maximize your security and privacy. Suggest a stronger password, and give examples, ship to a pick up center instead of your home, using burner credit cards instead, etc. Overall, I think this McAfee product is a great tool for anyone who wants to improve their online security and privacy. It's easy to use and it does a great job of explaining everything in a way that's easy to understand. The UI is super easy to navigate, and it offers I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is concerned about their online security and privacy and wants to take back control of their personal info. Ultimately I gave it a 4 star instead of a perfect 5 is because it's hard to listen to all the recommendations and it says I can improve my score by doing these steps, but when I open that section, literally nothing is there. I already did them. So it's give you a sense that it's not fully flushed out or that you are indeed working with a program that isn't that aware of itself. But still, highly recommended. It was a darn good first impression.

McAfee Privacy & Identity Guard states that that they can clear up your personal information that specific websites have stored or information that was stolen in a data breach. Making a profile on the site was pretty quick and simple. You submit your personal information then they put in a request to these sites to remove it. It's not an overnight process, and says it can taker up to thirty to forty-five days to have your data fully removed. One of the issues I had was when putting in all of my information to be monitored. I already have another Mcafee product active as well registered under my email address on my Mcafee profile. It allowed me to add an additional email address to protect but when it came to me adding my birthday it would not allow me and only shows the other birthday on the other Mcafee service which is my godsons. There seems to be no way around it or any way to add my birthday. So when it comes to the "score" the app gives you as far as protection coverage mine was really low, in combination with how many places my email was found on different sites. But I already knew that from having another monitoring service prior to this one. So for right now I don't know if it's doing what it claims or not because the wait is quite a while before you see results. I don't think I would recommend this to others especially if they have other Mcafee products that might cause conflict.

McAfee gets the job done with solid virus protection and easy-to-use features. It runs quietly in the background and keeps your device safe without slowing it down too much. It’s a simple, reliable option if you want basic security without any extra hassle.

Not worth the price. Does not come with a quick start guide. Did find the website and created a login. Have to try each item on the website to see if it works and guess to it's usage. I downloaded the app from the website to my Windows laptop, but it failed to install. GeekSquad could not get the app to install. Gave up after that.

great to have opportunity to use trial.works well.

Its ok. Doesn’t have a lot of features other than telling you you are in toruble

I love the total protection that mcafee provides as well as best buys accessability

Love it!! Everyone should try it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monitors a good amount of information and offers automated public data removal.

You really can't go wrong with McAfee. The app and online tools are easy to use.