
The good news doesn't stop there, either, as performance has been enhanced too. This isn't a case of an excessively strict engine catching all types of malware through sheer trigger-happiness, either: with an overall false-positive rate of 0.4%, McAfee confidently outshone the likes of Bitdefender, Norton and Trend Micro. So remarkable is McAfee's rise that we'd be tempted to put it down to a statistical blip, but the results were confirmed across several months by two independent testing labs, with both AV-Comparatives and AV-Test reporting 100% protection rates against threats both old and new.


Believe it or not, in just a year, it's rocketed from the bottom of the malware-detection table to the top. In April 2017, McAfee was officially spun off into an independent company by former owner Intel - and the change appears to have had a salutary effect on the company. This time around, though, things are different.

