Once McAfee Internet Security was installed, we ran our OpenOffice benchmark test, which matches 20,000 names and addresses on a spreadsheet. Performance and System ImpactĪs with all the products recently reviewed in this category, we ran performance tests on an ASUS X555LA notebook running Windows 8.1 with an Intel Core i3 processor, 6GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive containing 36GB of files. Most other top antivirus firms either include rescue-disk software with their products or offer it as a free download.
McAfee Internet Security can’t create or download a rescue disk, which would be used to boot and clean a Windows system so loaded with malware that running antivirus software from the hard disk won't work. There's nothing that compares with Kaspersky's fever charts and graphs that show system performance and resources, but McAfee has a nice Traffic Monitor that shows how much data is entering and leaving the system and which applications are using it.
