Comcast High-Speed Internet offers the best value in online security by providing the most comprehensive suite of features of any major Internet service provider included with your subscription.
Comcast is pleased to provide the McAfee Security Suite - now available with revolutionary Active Protection technology, providing immediate protection against malicious threats to your PC. A new threat can be analyzed and blocked in milliseconds, rather than waiting hours for traditional techniques. You and your family can surf worry-free with proven protection against viruses, hackers and more. Plus it includes parental controls. Even better - this $120 value is yours at no additional cost!
Benefits & Features
Improved Features:
- NEW! Active Protection - revolutionary technology that provides the fastest protection against malicious threats to your PC - blocking new threats in milliseconds, rather than waiting hours for traditional techniques.
- IMPROVED! Faster Performance - McAfee security products boast faster start-up, shut-down, and scan times. It runs silently in the background without slowing down your PC so you can watch videos and play games more smoothly, increasing PC productivity.
- NEW! Simplified Set-up - Installation is now easier and faster with improved detection and removal of malware that tries to halt the set-up.
- NEW! Age Appropriate Searching - Automatically sets the proper content filtering levels of popular search engines
- NEW! Quick Scan - Checks for threats in the areas of your computer that are most often attacked.
Additional Benefits:
- Anti-virus- Detects, blocks and removes viruses, and adware
- Two-way Firewall Protection - Confidently use the Internet 24/7 knowing hackers can’t get access to your PC’s
- McAfee SecurityCenter - Provides an easy-to-read security status screen and puts you in control with fully customizable options
- Protection without Interference - You can watch movies or play games uninterrupted as McAfee security service intelligently defers tasks, updates, and alerts when you’re in full-screen mode
- McAfee X-Ray for Windows - Detects and kills applications that hide from Windows such as rootkits.
- McAfee SystemGuards - Warns you when your computer shows specific behaviors that may signal virus, or hacker activity
- Stealth Mode - Makes your computer invisible to intruders from the Internet
- Shredder - Allows you to effectively remove any and all traces of confidential files from your computer
- Built-in PC Health and Performance Tools - Keep your PC running at peak performance with automated disc defrag and clean-up for files, applications and browser history
- McAfee Network Manager monitors PCs across your network for security weaknesses so you can easily fix security issues from one centralized network map.
- Data Backup - Automatically saves copies of your most valuable files on a CD/DVD, USB, external, or network drive
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 inappropriate material.
- Image Analysis allows parents to block images not suitable for young eyes, even on particular web sites which may not be blocked.
Description:
McAfee Security Suite offers comprehensive, easy-to-use PC and online security with accelerated performance, and helps keeps you and your family safe. It’s now available with revolutionary Active Protection technology, enabling the fastest updates and highest levels of detection against malicious threats. It provides anti-virus and two-way firewall protection. Additionally, parental controls are included.
With the daily emergence of new and more sophisticated Internet threats that could disrupt your digital life, you need more than a simple anti-virus program to protect yourself, your computer, and your family. You need McAfee® Security Suite - a comprehensive, feature-rich, and simple-to-use security software to help protect you and your family from online threats, hackers, and malware. McAfee software updates automatically, in the background, so you never have to worry about manually installing new versions of software.
Supporting Documents:
Not available in all areas. Not all features, including McAfee, compatible with Macintosh systems. Call for restrictions and complete details.
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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:
- Microsoft® Windows 2000 (32-bit) with Service Pack 4 (SP4) or higher,
- Windows XP (32 bit) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher,
- Windows Vista (32 or 64 bit) and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher
- Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)
- 800 X 600 or higher resolution
- 256 MB RAM
- 75 MB of available free drive space
- Internet connection
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
- Optional: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
Supported Email Programs
- POP3 – Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, IncrediMail and Thunderbird; Japanese only: Shuriken, Becky and PostPet
- MAPI – Outlook
- Web – Comcast SmartZone Communications Center, MSN/Hotmail, or email account with POP3 access