Bloatware - very disappointing! Brake system from extremely

I am this year exceptionally switched from Norton Internet Security, McAfee, as I became increasingly dissatisfied with Norton. McAfee already knew in the Corporate Edition of my office computers where you hardly noticed (by the way also not as a virus nesting for when several colleagues).

Three laptops on which the product has been installed, only run the most powerful without problems. One of the laptops (relatively current with 4GB of RAM and i5 processor), for example, since the installation often for a long time can not be addressed. Firefox and Thunderbird assume there since like until they are 20 time minutes used again. On some days, the laptop must be restarted before it can continue.
Even with the more powerful machine with 12GB RAM and i7 processor with eight threads running since installing McAfee nothing about: programs do not start, the files in the home network to and to copy her suddenly takes longer than when I Internet via the would exchange etc. Nothing exceptional, but all things that had recently still works.

But particularly troublesome are the hidden configuration options: time fast the firewall or antivirus software is off for certain actions only after endless clicks in seemingly randomly arranged menu possible. Information about the found vulnerabilities or alleged pest finds do not exist. Exclude certain file types (movies, music, etc.) from the access scan: impossible! Other features such as SiteAdvisor or AntiSpam should be turned off right after the installation, if you want to protect his nerves, otherwise you again feels transported back to the days of 54k modems and each mail must manually pull out of the spam folder (if it is not even completely gone ...)

In conclusion, I can therefore recommend to anyone seriously to install these inflated software, because except important status messages, the program does not have much to offer - even the dramatising "threat card" takes ten minutes to it shows a how "safe" the computer now. ..

I'll probably remove it soon and am angry about the wasted money. If that is possible at all without Neuinstallstion the operating system - the trial in a virtual machine hung in fact several times during the uninstall ...