Compare McAfee+ Ultimate Family vs Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

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.

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

Norton antivirus provides many scan options to detect and remove any malware like smart scan, custom scan, full scan etc. You can also schedule the scans. In terms of its effectiveness it has scored good in independent testing labs. In our in house test it blocked all the threats effectively. As per my personal long term experience it never missed any threat.

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

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.

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

Norton has a two way firewall for inbound and as well outbound connection monitoring. It offers intrusion detection and highly customized options to define your own rules. Settings are also easy to manage. A WiFi security is also included in it.

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

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.

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

Norton's web protection provide security from array of threats even without using any browser extension. But for more security Norton recommend to install its Safe Web browser extension. I found two extensions one named with Safe Web and another with Safe Search. Safe search replaces the search engines and provides its own search customize search engine powered by ask.

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

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.

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

You require to install the password manager as a browser extension to automatically store the passwords. It is a simple to use and powerful password manager to get rid of the password hassles.

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

McAfee VPN let you encrypt your connection and make you anonymous on the internet. McAfee VPN is named as Safe Connect.

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

Norton's VPN comes with many security features like AES 256 bit encryption, No log policy and Kill switch. It has servers in various countries. This plan includes unlimited VPN traffic.

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

In privacy monitoring it monitors dark web for any of your leaked private information and alert you. In full service mcafee not just only scan the information with the data brokers but also help you to remove them.

In its premium plan it includes following features.

• Social privacy manager
• Personal Data cleanup (Full service)
• Online account cleanup (Full service)

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

Under privacy protection I found two options a VPN and SafeCam. Though its name is SafeCam but it can monitor both webcam and microphone.

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

Scan up to 60 type of personal information on the dark web. In this plan it includes only identity monitoring and alerts.

This plan includes up to $2 million coverage. Credit monitoring and bank and credit card transaction monitoring. 3-Bureau credit monitoring, credit lock and security freeze. Up to $25000 ransomware coverage. Investment and loan monitoring.

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

Norton's Identity theft protection service is powered by Lifelock. It includes a dark web monitoring feature scan and alert you if any of the your information like email, phone, credit card detail etc. found on dark web. This plan includes:

• $1 million insurance for Id theft as Lawyer and expert coverage.
• Credit monitoring from 3 bureaus.
• Social security and credit alert.
• Bank and credit card Alert,
• Security Lock.
• 401(k) & Investment Account Alerts.
• Home Title Monitoring.
• Stolen wallet & personal expense compensation up to $1 million.

McAfee+ Ultimate Family

McAfee family plan includes parental control feature to manage and monitor your children's activity.

Norton 360 LifeLock Ultimate Plus

Norton Offers Norton Family as its parent control software. It comes with time supervision, app supervision and other powerful features to keep an eye on your children. Even you can monitor search engine searches and YouTube searches. I found Instant Lock and unlock with the Pin a powerful feature which is very handy when I used this software regularly.