Does Mcafee even work?

I have Mcafee Security Center which is supposed to cover anti virus, anti spy ware, antispam, firewall, and pretty much everything else. I have scanned my computer so many times and have found nothing but have also got ad aware and spybot and they have found multiple spyware threats(They turned out to just be cookies though). Is Mcafee just really crap or something?

Does Mcafee even work?photoshop

I have had McAfee for 8 years and have not had any problems.

You should run Maintain Computer.

You should also set your cookie handling to Prompt to control what cookies get on your computer.

Does Mcafee even work?symatec

NO anti-virus can ever be relied upon to give 100% protection. None of them do, free or paid. Most only detect about 85 to 95% of all KNOWN viruses. When a brand new virus is released, NO signature-based anti-virus will detect it for several hours up to several days. And over 1200 new variants of viruses and other malware are created by the "black-hats" each and every day.

I would give McAfee a solid "B" for it's malware protection. It is not top-shelf, like Kaspersky and NOD32, but there many worse.

Just be aware that Spybot will report certain Windows settings changes as "threats" and that AdAware by default reports also totally harmless MRUs (most recently used items) as a threat.