McAfee Total Protection is offered as an annual subscription in three packages: for one, five or ten devices. This feature wasn’t ready for Big Sur at the time of testing but it performed as expected in Catalina, and this should be updated by the time you read this. Going back to the Mac software, Total Protection’s Firewall adds another layer of protection for both incoming and outgoing traffic. This provides threat scanning, a VPN and browser security, a code-protected media vault, and options for tracking if the iPhone is mislaid and erasing if it’s stolen.

If you buy a multiple-device licence, your iPhone can get in on the protection action as part of the Total Protection subscription you can install the McAfee Security iOS app. This is also available separately as a free plugin for Firefox, Chrome and Edge, but in this form it’s browser-independent. WebAdvisor is an additional feature that identifies unsafe sites and issues warnings or actually blocks them from loading. If that’s not convenient you can simply edit the day and time, and the frequency options are daily, weekly, monthly or never – that last being one we don’t advise choosing of course.

The default is to scan once a week at 4am, which means your Mac must be on at that time.

You can schedule full scans of your Mac to happen on a regular basis.

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