McAfee MOVE AntiVirus Room for Improvement
McAfee could improve the administrative interface. It's functional but could be more user-friendly. Also, ongoing support and updates are important aspects.
I'm not sure if there are any features that need improvement. I haven't compared it to anything else, so I'm not sure what would make it better.
The security could always be better. I'd always like to have more protection.
View full review »My company did not face any issues which McAfee could not resolve.
In our company, we have another solution that we use through Cisco for our handheld devices, but we don't find it for McAfee. Vendors like Cisco support the integration with the other devices. McAfee MOVE AntiVirus does not support integration with other devices, making it an area where improvements are required.
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McAfee MOVE AntiVirus
April 2024
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Vineeth Marar
Cloud solution architect at 0
I'd prefer more frequent updates.
View full review »The user interface of McAfee MOVE AntiVirus could benefit from some improvements. The excessive pop-ups can be bothersome, particularly when sharing my screen online, as I often get interrupted by the notifications. While I understand there is an option to disable these pop-ups, I feel that it should be disabled by default. Although I appreciate the overall design of the graphical user interface, the constant interruptions detract from the user experience.
I've never had any issues with the solution in the past.
There isn't really anything that needs to be improved.
The cost could be lowered a bit.
View full review »The pricing and renewal process for McAfee MOVE AntiVirus could be more smoother. When I use multiple accounts, often from my Postgres PC, the licensing is capped to one specific account, preventing me from utilizing it with other accounts under the same installation. This necessitates constant switching between accounts, which can be unreliable even when I've paid for the subscription.
Additionally, the lack of multi-year subscription options makes it inconvenient, as renewing annually might be forgettable. Overall, automation and simplifying renewals and technical support could be done.
The solution needs better stability. There are a lot of issues.
The solution uses up a lot of memory, which is a major issue.
View full review »The vendor is very pushy on some of the partner products. If we have McAfee installed, the search engine in my browser automatically becomes Yahoo, which I do not want. Every time, I need to change it back. The moment McAfee starts, it resets to Yahoo. It’s really a pain. I never asked for Yahoo to be my default search engine.
The product must stop pushing the wrong sort of upgrades all the time. They keep doing commercial upsells and partner promotions. The tool slows down the computer a little bit sometimes.
McAfee MOVE AntiVirus’s initial setup was complex.
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reviewer2325426
It at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
As an antivirus software that is sold in many countries abroad, the product needs to focus more on localization. McAfee MOVE AntiVirus needs to be made more secure, as it is one of the areas where the product lacks.
McAfee MOVE AntiVirus could improve by consolidating the dashboard of all the endpoints and proving real-time alerts.
View full review »Right now, nothing is missing from the solution. We are happy with it.
View full review »The performance is not very good.
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reviewer1937211
Senior Technology Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The cost could be improved.
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reviewer1712268
Program Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The system could perform better and faster. The latest Windows, like 10 and 11, have the internal defenders available in the setup itself. It was pre-installed and it was available with the package itself. I didn't have to pay anything separately for that, so that's why I'm just keeping it as it is. Another problem is I can't delete it or I can only disable it, so when the self protective system is already in place, I don't think an additional antivirus is needed.
McAfee MOVE AntiVirus blocks ports and applications that we need to use.
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RichardDuggan
Owner at Richard Duggan Pty Ltd
The solution must provide better pricing.
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Pavithra Ahuja
Freelance consultant at a consultancy with self employed
I'm not sure what can be better on the solution. I only use it for my office and am not missing any features.
The solution could always be cheaper.
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Lawrence Katuruza
Systems Administrator at Dairibord
The installation process could be improved. It's a bit difficult, but once you get it right, it's fine.
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reviewer1322280
Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It would be ideal if the product could offer more integration.
The solution could always be more secure. The more energy they put into security, the better it is for us.
View full review »I would consider additional measures if I needed a higher level of protection, such as implementing more firewalls and other security measures.
But this kind of first level of protection, it's okay.
However, there is room for improvement in terms of stability.
View full review »SentinelOne provides a cloud solution that McAfee MOVE AntiVirus should as well. When all other vendors come out with new features they are implemented by all the other vendors within a few months. However, this is not the case with McAfee MOVE AntiVirus. They should update their features more often to be more competitive with the market.
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Manirama Krishnamoorthy
Director Engineering at MapleLabs
We'd like the price point to be more attractive to potential users. If I was offered a stripped-down version of it at a more reasonable price, I would be happier.
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AhmedEmara1
Infrastructure Manager at 0
It's resiliency needs improvement.
The solution’s stability and licensing price could be improved.
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Kapil Awasthi
Chief Executive Officer at Purple Synapz
The tool's stability could be better.
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Prashant_Pawar
Principal Architect at LTIMINDTREE
I would like to see MOVE include zero-trust functionality.
View full review »In the next release, MOVE AntiVirus should include a file protection feature for mobile devices.
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reviewer1615314
Senior Integration Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Overall, the solution could be better priced. When it comes to the number of licenses which I need in relation to the number of devices that I have in my home, things could be cheaper.
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AndyNoble
Head of Operational Excellence at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
They should work to make the renewal process better. I'd like to see is a few weeks of notification up front that the renewal is about to expire.
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reviewer1507836
Lead Business Analyst - HR Systems at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see monthly reports of the usage.
While scanning, if you could get history as well provide an easy report that can identify monthly what you have browsed.
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FaheemSaeed
Manager Pre-Sales (ICT) at CNS Engineering
I would like to be able to see the new virtual machines in the reporting and in general to have enhanced reporting.
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Samthosh Chavva
Network Engineer at Pyramid it solutions pvt ltd
The product must use AI to detect and block unwanted viruses automatically. Such a feature will be very useful.
View full review »The threat protection could be improved.
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Ariful Mondal
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
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reviewer1635153
VP Global Information Technology at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The solution could improve by making the dashboards better.
View full review »The process of enabling drive encryption can be improved. It takes a long time to enable drive encryption. For some reason, we have to keep monitoring it. It takes a few hours to update the policies, which finally encrypts the drive. It's a very slow process, and we have to sit there and watch what goes on.
Sometimes I also see that there isn't any reporting back to the central team that someone's system isn't up to date.
The advanced threat protection is not as good as the competitors.
They are not as fast as the other competitors in detecting new threats. They can be anywhere from half a day to a day behind the other solutions before detecting the threat.
The admin interface is very old.
In the next release, they could refresh the GUI. It would be appreciated.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
This solution requires you to deploy multiple agents for multiple jobs which is unfortunate. There is the antivirus, there is a DLP client, there is a media client. I'd like to see all of these combined into a single agent that does everything without consuming significant resources. That would be a great innovation from the endpoint security point of view. Rather than having different tools, the DLP DR should be integrated and simplified into one single security solution.
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reviewer1360290
Lead IT Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The dashboard should be improved, as a more user-friendly version is required.
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Chandrasekhar Reddy Chennuru
Scientist/Engineer-SG at NRSC
McAfee MOVE AntiVirus could improve by making it more secure.
View full review »This solution could be improved by faster performance. If I have other processes running, McAfee slows my laptop down.
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Venkatram Venkatasamy
Practice Head - Chemicals & Operations Excellence at Tata Strategic Management Group
The solution could improve security.
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reviewer936228
Manager- Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The security of the solution could improve.
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reviewer594315
Assistant IT Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution could always be more secure. Whatever they can do to protect their users in the future, they should do.
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Pavithra Ahuja
Freelance consultant at a consultancy with self employed
The solution could be more secure.
View full review »I found that the interface is a little bit confusing. It's over-stuffed. If a new IT person comes in, it is difficult to understand how the McAfee console works. It needs to be more user-friendly and not as complicated.
It would be nice if the solution could add in some ransomware features.
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reviewer896508
Infrastructure Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
As of now, we haven't identified any room for improvement as it's addressing our requirements for malware detection and for performance also.
It would be ideal if the initial setup was a bit easier.
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reviewer1614456
IT Support Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
McAfee drive encryption does not work very smoothly. While I make use of it, I have found that it does not work properly on the machine. Along the way it tends to get corrupted and this can happen on certain drives. I know there are many issues worth mentioning, although I am hard pressed to come up with specific ones at the moment. In respect of hardware resources such as RAM, there is also a need to improve the antivirus features.
Deep learning, machine learning should be added as a feature. Ransomware protection should be updated for the latest ransomware extension. By comparison, Sophos has many new features, such as deep learning in XDR. McAfee needs to be improved so that its features can compete with those of Sophos, such as threat hunting, threat analysis and an additional lockdown feature for the server.
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Frisal Argha Kusumah
Automation Service Engineer (DCS) at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The software is dependent on the operating system of the computer. In some cases, the virus does not get cleaned completely. Regular updates on the status of the virus that may not have been cleaned entirely would help.
I would like to see more emphasis on cybersecurity in the next release.
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reviewer1139517
Divisional Manager - Digital at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I'd like to see the time for scanning reduced to a minimum and that the solution be more secure.
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reviewer1724199
Systems Architect at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
As a general rule, I find many of the antivirus solutions to be intrusive when running. They consume a sizable amount of memory resources while they are loading. When it comes to working on one's laptop or desktop, many of these processes, initially, run when a machine boots up - something which prevents a person from accessing his mail or quickly accessing his work. It would be very helpful if a significant reduction in overhead could be brought about. Other than this, I would rate them as fairly good from a protection standpoint.
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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They could try to introduce advanced threat detection. This could be a huge improvement because some customers don't want to buy the entire McAfee product. It should product from unknown threats as well.
I would like to ability to mitigate advanced threats. It should be a bit stronger.
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reviewer1656168
Information Management Specialist at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The solution needs to be more secure. If they can continue to improve the level of protection it offers, it would be a better product.
They need to offer more spam filters or integrate more features for controlling junk. They need to be able to filter during browsing. That would help make the solution more secure.
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reviewer1579953
Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The performance is poor. It slows down my PC when it starts running. It takes up a lot of energy on the system.
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reviewer1410597
Vice President Of Technology at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is okay for users who are just office personnel. Developers or users who heavily use their laptops complain that it really slows down their laptops. Using this solution can be a big challenge from the performance perspective if you need a productive system that locally runs multiple VMs.
View full review »We are currently doing a project where we need assistance on the File Integrity Monitoring feature for McAfee as well as the ability to do classification of data. That feature is there for data protection. We need help to implement it properly.
They could improve the monitoring and classification of the data features.
Additionally, I want to experience the EDR of McAfee. Basically, EDR is the most potent threat now, that's the major concern for a lot of people. This is what is called the file-less attacks. Processes that run in memory, traditional antivirus software are not able to detect that. So the EDR feature has been made to provide the defense mechanism for the endpoint. Those processes can be stopped from running in memory once they are seen as malicious. That's what I understand EDR does. So I want to experience the EDR feature for McAfee to see how that compares with what we are currently using.
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Manirama Krishnamoorthy
Director Engineering at MapleLabs
I'm happy with the solution but the pricing could be improved, it's very expensive.
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reviewer1347297
Engineering Manager, R&D at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Our only issue is performance. McAfee needs a plan to make that better.
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Mac Wang
Project Manager at Realnux
I would like to see improvements made to make it more secure.
The stability could be improved.
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reviewer1594761
IT Manager at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
We're currently looking to switch to a solution that offers cloud security because we want that integrated with the antivirus. We're looking for something that's more sophisticated and integrated.
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Hayaa Kayasseh
Process Specialist - Operational Excellence at a government with 51-200 employees
I would like to see integration with SharePoint.
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reviewer1687599
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution could be a bit less expensive.
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reviewer1782945
Group IT Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
McAfee MOVE AntiVirus could improve by being more user-friendly and having more frequent updates.
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reviewer1572795
IT Production Engineer at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
The interface is not so easy to use and could be improved.
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reviewer1183125
Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
In the next release, I would like to see some news about the latest ransomware and viruses in the product's database.
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Venkateswarlu Paturu
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Sometimes, the updates don't happen successfully. The updates start, but they are not completed. Let's say there is a process that runs on the server-side every night, and it pushes the updates. Sometimes, these updates fail. I'm not sure whether it is a McAfee's problem or an internal problem with our systems.
If this is really an issue with McAfee MOVE AntiVirus, McAfee can work on it and improve it in the next release. If it is an internal issue, I need to figure out why it is happening within the organization. We may need to take some technical support from McAfee to see what the problem is and then we need to get it fixed. At this point in time, all I know is that it happens sometimes.
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reviewer1582965
Project Management Officer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution could be cheaper. they should work to lower their pricing. It's too expensive right now.
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reviewer1712571
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The performance of this product could be improved.
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reviewer1613862
Network and Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The security feature should be more secure.
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McAfee MOVE AntiVirus
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about McAfee MOVE AntiVirus. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.