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McAfee tends to be reasonably cheap for the initial year, before seriously jacking up the price when you renew.

McAfee now incentivises auto-renewal with bonuses, currently in the form of a money-back guarantee and access to the Safe Connect VPN service.Īlthough McAfee also owns TunnelBear, Safe Connect provides a less fully featured service and appears not to use the same infrastructure, although there are at least no bandwidth caps for Total Protection users. It’s now much easier to disable subscription auto-renewal, but the increase between Total Protection’s initial subscription cost and renewal fee is still pretty hefty. McAfee Total Protection is a paid-for antivirus, but its steep renewal fees, to which customers were automatically subscribed, were recently found as being unfair by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. VPN Users who opt in to subscription auto-renewal get access to McAfee’s unlimited Safe Connect VPN service.Password manager Generate, save and auto-fill secure password via browser extensions.Parental controls Time limits and content filtering for children of various ages.