Comprehensive security, offered at no additional cost - now with dramatically faster start up and scanning!

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As a Comcast High-Speed Internet subscriber, you enjoy the advantage of getting the highly-acclaimed McAfee Security Suite, a $120 value, at no additional cost with your subscription. You and your family can surf worry free with proven protection against identity theft, viruses, hackers and more. Plus get parental controls. We make fast safe and easy. All you need is your comcast.net email address and password to get started!

Benefits & Features
Improved Features:
  • NEW! Improved performance with less processing, less memory use, and faster scanning.
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  • NEW! Protection without interference - McAfee security service will intelligently defer tasks, updates, and alerts. This is a unique feature that allows you to use your PC for uninterrupted movie watching, slide show presenting, or game playing.
  • Firewall Protection automatically monitors activity, and lets you hide your presence on the internet to make your computer invisible to malicious hackers.
Additional Benefits:
  • Identity Theft Protection guards your identity when you are online. McAfee Password Vault provides a safe place to store your confidential passwords.
  • Windows Protection with McAfee X-Ray for Windows detects and kills applications that hide from Windows such as rootkits.
  • McAfee System Guards watch your computer for specific behaviours that signals virus, spyware or hacker-like activities.
  • Built-in PC Health and Performance Tools keeps the PC running at peak performance with automated disc defrag, and clean-up for files, applications and browser history.
  • McAfee Image Analysis keeps offensive content and pictures away from your children.
  • McAfee Network Manager monitors PCs across your network for security weaknessess so you can easily fix security issues from one centralized network map.
  • Built-in McAfee Shredder allows you to digitally "shred" confidential files, effectively removing any and all traces of them from your computer.
Parental Controls
  • Time Limits help parents determine when their child can use the internet by day of the week and hour of the day.
  • Web Site Blocking guards children from accidentally accessing a site which contains inapproriate material.
  • Image Analysis allows parents to block images not suitable for young eyes, even on pariticular web sites which may not be blocked.
Description:

McAfee(R) Security Suite provides trusted PC and Internet protection so your whole family can enjoy online activities such as surfing the Web, shopping, banking, emailing and instant messaging. Always on, always protecting and always updating, McAfee delivers a worry-free Internet experience because it guards both your identity and your PC from viruses, spyware, email, and hackers.

The latest McAfee software and updates download automatically, so you never have to install anything manually when a new version is available. Also included in your subscription is McAfee(R) Network Manager, which simplifies control over the security of all your home PCs. Network Manager plugs into McAfee(R) SecurityCenter, which has been redesigned to give you an at-a-glance view of your security status.

Supporting Documents:

Before you install:

Please be sure to take the following actions:

  • Disable pop-up blockers Learn More
  • Confirm that your IE browser security is set to Medium Learn More
  • Uninstall any existing security software Learn More
  • View complete instructions on these steps and the download process Learn More

Review the minimum system requirements.

Have your Comcast.net email address and password ready:

  • If you are not already signed into Comcast.net, you will be required to sign-in continue. Please click here to chat with a live Comcast support representative.
  • Be sure to have a different comcast.net email address for each new computer you plan to download McAfee to. Learn more.

System Requirements:

Important:

Your Operating System must be designed and tested to support English languages. This product does not support any versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000.

Microsoft(R) Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, Windows VISTA

Personal computer with Pentium-compatible processor 500 MHz or higher

RAM

  • 256 MB

Before Installation:

  • 200 MB hard disk space

After Installation:

  • 125 MB hard disk space

800 X 600 or higher resolution

Microsoft(R) .NET Framework version 1.1.4322

Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0. Beta software (e.g, IE8 Beta) NOT supported.

Note: To upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer, visit the Microsoft Website at http://www.microsoft.com/

Supported email programs

  • POP3 - Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, IncrediMail, Thunderbird, Japanese only: Shuriken, Becky, PostPet
  • MAPI - Outlook
  • Web - MSN/Hotmail, or email account with POP3 access

Supported instant messaging programs

  • AOL Instant Messenger 2.1 or later
  • Yahoo Messenger 4.1 or later
  • Microsoft Windows Messenger 3.6 or later
  • MSN Messenger 6.0 or later

Required for toolbar plug-in

  • Outlook Express 6.0 or later
  • Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, or 2007
  • Eudora 6.0 or later
  • Thunderbird 1.5 or later