Renewal of McAfee antivirus subscription

dinnerout wrote on Thu Dec 11, 2025 2:08pm:

I have not used McAfee personally but have heard bad feedback from some that have. 

I have used Avast for 20 odd years and they have been consistently good. I highly recommend them. Annual billing. Choose the level of  cover to suit your requirements and just watch that the annual renewal proposal email doesn't increase that cover, otherwise fantastic protection at reasonab...

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...le cost.

Best regards, Steve

Darro wrote on Fri Dec 12, 2025 2:06pm:

For the typical home user there few, if any, compellng need to subscribe to a paid for AV programme or service, the FREE versions are perfectly adequate.

I've been a PC user since the days of DOS and have only ever used free products switching between them if or when they became irritating or obstructive (popups urging an upgrade to the paid for version), overly resource hungry (many are anyway be they paid for or free), or an 'update' comes along...

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... which simply ruins the experience - which happens a lot!

There is a also substantial cohort of informed opinion which posits that for Windows 10 & 11 the protection the built in Windows Defender affords is all the majority of regular users should need.

BTW, call me a Doubting Thomas but addressing an existing subscriber as 'loyal customer' as opposed to by actual name is a bit of a red flag to me that something may not be 100% kosher!.

To solve your problem have you tried fully unistalling the old version before installing the new one with a rebbot inbetween?