McAfee Virus Quick Clean 2005

 McAfee Quickclean

Faster and still able, Quick Clean manages to get the job done right the first time.

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Friday, October 22, 2004 

McAfee Quickclean 

www.mcafee.com 

1 year subscription $ 24.99

1 year renewal $ 19.99

Download $ 29.99

Package $ 39.99 

Review by Kurt von Behrmann 

Uninstallers have gone past being just uninstallers. Equipped with preventative tools and frequently tools to remove clutter from a hard drive, many programs incorporate these functions into their suites, or have them as stand alone programs. 

For those that like to create system support by taking the best of this program and the best of that without having to buy into an entire system, Quickclean offers itself as stand alone to make disk housekeeping that much easier. 

In the past this was hands down the best program around for cleaning up clutter. It is one of the few that can perform the clean up function by actually removing files via shutting down your pc and removing them without the OS running in full mode. 

As a way to remove pesky programs, McAfee Quickclean has been a stand out. 

Taking up a bit more space than other programs in the McAfee line up, this is still one of the safest ways of removing files. 

As with nearly every uninstaller I have ever used, the promises of being able to remove programs that have faulty uninstall programs of their own is still a hit or miss operation. From what I have seen, I have yet to see anyone’s uninstaller remove a program that has a corrupted uninstall.

That aside, this program digs deep and fast at finding the clutter on your hard drive.  

As disk sizes become larger, clutter is still a problem. Sure you may have room galore, I have seen left over files actual cause issues. Plus it just makes sense to see that your hard drive is no larger than it needs to be. 

Clearing out more than hard drive clutter, it can remove cookies from your Browser as well as other types of sometimes difficult to find temp files.  Much like the firewall from McAfee stats are accessible from the program along with adjusting system settings too. 

Summation  

As far as the better deal, a one year subscription is the best way to go. Seeing where computing is going is hard. I would suggest never committing yourself to one program for more than a year. Clearly, McAfee is working hard at encouraging users to take the download path. Offering price as a strong incentive, McAfee is pushing towards software as a service and less a physical commodity. While you can still buy the boxed version, for online users with broadband and even dial up users, there is little incentive to go that path.

Now that the online version is identical to the boxed one, downloading truly makes sense. The only issue at this point is figuring out how long to purchase a subscription.  Of the many types of programs that one can think of as a service of sorts, this one makes a lot of sense. 

When it comes to cleaning up without harming your system, McAfee has a winner here.