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The install methods for McAfee Activate consumer software products, such as LiveSafe or Total Protection, vary depending on the device to which you are installing. Follow the steps below to download and install a McAfee Activate consumer security product on your device.
What type of device do you want to install to?
NOTE: Click to expand the relevant section below. Each section contains the install steps and a helpful video.
Use these steps on the PC or Mac you want to install to:
Step 2: Start the installation
If the install to your Windows PC fails, you might need to run the Pre-Install tool. See the Related Information section for more details.
It’s been almost two years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, driving increased mainstream awareness of and access to Generative AI tools. In that time, new tools and solutions seem to be launching daily. There is also a growing trend of building bigger models that consume larger quantities of training data, often with mixed results ranging from hallucinations or categorically incorrect facts to the regurgitation of opinions as universal truth, proving the old adage that sometimes “less is more”.
So, if using more data doesn’t translate into better results… what does? It comes down to another tried and true saying – “quality over quantity.”
At McAfee, we maniacally focus on data quality. A well-developed Generative AI model is nothing without high-quality, curated datasets to fuel them. When the quantity of data is prioritized over quality, the results are often disappointing.
How do we produce quality data? Using millions of worldwide sensors, our AI engineers and AI data specialists focus on clues that point to threats. But that’s just the first step. Our teams then curate the data to improve the quality and maximize data diversity, reducing sources of bias, cross-pollinating data sources, and enriching and standardizing samples, just to name a few of the dozens of operations conducted to ensure we’re building datasets of the highest and purest quality.
All of this translates into the most comprehensive and robust AI-based protection for our customers: more than 1.5M threat detections per week across malware, scams, phishing, smishing, and more than half a billion web categorizations to help ensure a safe digital journey while browsing the Internet.
As the capabilities of AI tools increase, so does the conversation around how technology removes humans from the equation. The reality is that humans are still an integral part of the process and key to any successful Generative AI strategy. AI is only as good as the data it’s trained on, and in McAfee’s case, the guidance provided by cybersecurity experts. Thus, Cybersecurity AI specialists curating data is crucial to the development of all of our AI systems as it mitigates potential sources of error, resulting in accurate and trusted AI solutions, and allowing us to scale and share human expertise to better protect millions of customers worldwide.
Tackling cyber threats is a tall order that comes with intrinsic challenges. For example, modern scams are more subtle and less obvious even to experts, and quite often it is just the implicit intent that sets it apart from genuine (non-scam) content. Being context-aware can help navigate this landscape to more effectively detect and stop threats before they reach customers. What is more, we believe transparency and education are paramount for building a safer digital world. This is why we also invest in building explainable AI that helps users understand why a threat has been flagged and provides clues they can use to identify future threats.
The GenAI journey has only just begun. There is still a lot of work to do and a lot to look forward to as this technology continues to evolve. While it’s easy, as developers, to get caught up in the excitement, it’s also important to identify and focus on an ultimate goal and the responsible and safe steps to get there. At McAfee, we pledge to protect our customers, and we believe in the synergistic interaction between AI and Human Threat Intelligence. Together, we can deliver a trusted, world-class AI protection experience.
Use these steps to install your McAfee Activate product on a secondary computer, such as your child's PC or Mac, from your primary PC or Mac. For example, you can send an installation link from your main computer, and have your child click the link to complete the installation on their computer.
Step 1: On the primary computer where you want to start the process
Step 2: Send a download link to the secondary computer
Step 3: On the secondary computer
If the install to your Windows PC fails, you might need to run the Pre-Install tool. See the Related Information section for more details.
After your first installation, you can install your McAfee Activate software on another PC or Mac, as long as you have enough unused licenses. You can also reinstall your McAfee Activate software on your PC or Mac:
Step 1: Log on to the McAfee Activate website
Step 2: Start the installation
Step 3: Complete the installation
If the install to your Windows PC fails, you might need to run the Pre-Install tool. See the Related Information section for more details.
McAfee Activate network Free Intel’s latest incarnation of the McAfee Activate network Free internet security suite and is particularly flexible in protecting a wide range of your desktop and mobile devices. McAfee Activate network Free is only so many ways you can present the information from an internet security suite. McAfee Activate network Free Total Protection has the virtue of simplicity, though not much visual flair. McAfee Activate network Free initial display shows the status of virus, spyware, email and web protection and offers big buttons to add McAfee Activate network Free to other machines. It can offer this because McAfee Activate network Free Total Protection covers unlimited devices.
This means that, for personal use, you can add to your McAfee Activate network Free account whatever mix of PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices you want, though the PC protection is the most comprehensive. Setting up protection on extra devices is made easier by the My Network function, which examines and reports on all available machines connected to your local network. It may be one of the more expensive options at £80 but Total Protection 2016, as we've said, isn't limited to only a few devices. Plus, amazingly, you can buy Total Protection 2016 from Amazon for only £19.99.
Controls are easy to access and most take the form of check boxes or slide switches, but you can safely leave virtually all of them at their default settings. An AV scan schedule is automatically established, but you can run custom scans too. What Total Protection lacks, compared with McAfee Activate network Free’s top-of-the-range LiveSafe, is the personal 1GB Cloud Locker, which provides online storage shared between all your devices, and support for biometric security, such as facial recognition. Online storage and backup are certainly a useful supplement to Internet Security and many rival products make it a core element of their packages, but it’s always possible to add it here, through upgrade.
Our test scan of 50GB of assorted files completed in 1 hour 18 minutes and scanned 17,718 files, giving a poor scan rate of just 3.79 files per second. Repeating the scan took 10 minutes 36s and, unusually, examined 18,030, slightly more than the first scan. McAfee Activate network Freere’s a noticeable hit on system performance, too, with a 1GB file copy taking 40s without a scan running in the background and 1min 09s, with one. That’s an increase of 72 percent. Our results are at variance with the more extensive testing carried out by AV-Test, though.
McAfee Activate network Free Usability section also scored a perfect 6.0, with no false detections or warnings at any stage – an excellent result. Finally, McAfee Activate network Free Protection section dropped the 0.5. While McAfee Activate network Free provided 99.9 percent protection against a group average of 99.7 percent on established malware, it dropped from 98.8 percent to 96.7 percent month to month, against an average of 97.1 percent, when dealing with zero-day attacks. It’s still a very good result.
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| Managed Services Specialization | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Service Delivery Specialization* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
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*Service Delivery Specialization will be available 2H 2015.
**Formerly McAfee Activate network Authorized Support Provider Program (MASP)
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