Which one should you choose, McAfee Total Protection Essential 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 McAfee Total Protection Essential vs McAfee+ Premium Individual
McAfee essential offers 5 devices license for its total protection product keeping all the features it offers in basic plan. It comes with Scam detector. Identity monitoring and password manager is included in it.
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 McAfee Total Protection Essential
- Password Manager is included
- Identity monitoring is included in the essential
What I like in McAfee+ Premium Individual
- Unlimited devices
What I dislike in McAfee Total Protection Essential
- Missing mic and camera monitor
What I dislike in McAfee+ Premium Individual
- Data cleanup support scan only.
Features Comparison
Find out the detailed difference between McAfee Total Protection Essential and McAfee+ Premium Individual
Common Features
Features that are common in both software. Check out how each feature is different in both software
Antimalware
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. I didn't found any other feature to configure.
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.
Firewall
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.
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.
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.
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.
Password-manager
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.
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.
Vpn
McAfee VPN let you encrypt your connection and make you anonymous on the internet. McAfee VPN is named as Safe Connect.
McAfee VPN let you encrypt your connection and make you anonymous on the internet. McAfee VPN is named as Safe Connect.
Privacy-tools
In this plan there is not special privacy features included.
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)
Extra Features in McAfee+ Premium Individual
Features that are only available in McAfee+ Premium Individual but not available in McAfee Total Protection Essential
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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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