Which one should you choose, ESET Premium or McAfee+ Premium Individual? Let's do a side-by-side comparison to find out the differences and help you choose the right one. Let's start with a quick comparison.
Quick Overview of ESET Premium vs McAfee+ Premium Individual
ESET premium comes with password manager, data encryption, live guard and folder guard features in addition to its essential bundle. But still VPN is not included in it. A found its UI a little complex as option are available at many places which makes confusion. Some features look straight forward like parental control but there are no clear instructions to setup. It uses cloud based scanning and takes less system resources which makes it gamer friendly antivirus.
McAfee+ plans comes with unlimited device support for household. Individual plans come without parental control whereas family plans come with parental control feature. McAfee Premium plans includes VPN, text scam detector, password manager, antiphishing, social privacy manager, Data broker privacy monitor, dark web monitoring. Identity theft features are not included in it.
What I like in ESET Premium
- Password protection
- Webcam protection
What I like in McAfee+ Premium Individual
- Unlimited devices
What I dislike in ESET Premium
- Complex user interface
- vpn is not included
What I dislike in McAfee+ Premium Individual
- Data cleanup support scan only.
Features Comparison
Find out the detailed difference between ESET Premium and McAfee+ Premium Individual
Common Features
Features that are common in both software. Check out how each feature is different in both software
Antimalware
Antimalware which protects from malware like viruses, trojans, spyware etc. It includes smart scan, custom scan, full scan options. In its settings you can customize scanning options.
McAfee's Antimalware has multiple layer of protection to protect against all kind of common threats like ransomware, viruses, trojans, spyware etc. McAfee uses AI based malware detection.
Web-protection
Its web protection comes with anti-phishing capability to protect from dangerous websites. It includes web access protection, browser protection. A browser privacy and security extension for the browser also provides enhanced web protection.
McAfee's web protection alert you about dangerous websites and avoid you to visit phishing websites. McAfee do this with a browser extension named McAfee WebAdvisor.
Firewall
A firewall is included with wifi network security feature to protect unauthorized access to wifi network. Its firewall has option to customize rules. additionally as compared to other antivirus it includes option to evaluate Windows firewall rules and group policy rules.
McAfee uses Windows firewall to control inbound connections and an advanced firewall for the outbound connections. So basically it uses two firewall. I don't know it is good or bad. But it is offering a two way firewall protection.
Password-manager
This includes a password manager to easily autologin and save passwords in a secure place.
McAfee's password manager help you to store, organize and autofill passwords easily. Its password manager is named as McAfee True Key. It is a browser based extension. It has the option to import passwords from other popular password managers.
Extra Features in ESET Premium
Features that are only available in ESET Premium but not available in McAfee+ Premium Individual
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Antiransomware
Its malware protection comes with ransomware protection. It has inbuilt protection for the ransomware threats as claimed on its website but I didn't found any setting for the ransomware protection. Many antivirus provide an extra layer of ransomware protection by keeping an eye on folders which have sensitive information as like in Avast. ESET providing the same thing as folder guard. You can set app permission to access these folders.
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Other-features
Additionally it includes data encryption, ESET liveguard and ESET folder guard.
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Parental-control
Even in its essential bundle a parental control features is included with it. Setting up it is not easy as you need to understand its working. You have to create a separate user account in Windows to make it work properly. You can create child profile from the ESET home dashboard. Good thing is that it also works with android device.
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Optimization-tools
It includes a system cleaner feature But I was unable to find any cleaning functionality. As you can see in the screenshot it is just suggesting the Windows settings which have changed from its default settings. I don't know how useful is it because many users intentionally changed some Windows settings. But it is useful for them who need to reset all the settings to default.
Extra Features in McAfee+ Premium Individual
Features that are only available in McAfee+ Premium Individual but not available in ESET Premium
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Vpn
McAfee VPN let you encrypt your connection and make you anonymous on the internet. McAfee VPN is named as Safe Connect.
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Privacy-tools
In privacy monitoring it monitors dark web for any of your leaked private information and alert you.
In its premium plan it includes following features
- Social privacy manager
- Personal Data cleanup (Scan only)
- Online account cleanup (Scan only)
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Identity-protection
Scan up to 60 type of personal information on the dark web. In this plan it includes only identity monitoring and alerts.
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