McAfee Free Antivirus

McAfee Free Antivirus is a free McAfee product that scans for and blocks viruses, ransomware, malware and spyware. Supported platforms are Windows. It is recorded as supporting malware detection. The stated market is Consumer. It is McAfee's entry in the free antimalware category.

Current Version

0.5.0.0

Product Page

mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/free

Market

Consumer

Licence

Trial

Price

Paid · price unknown

Record Created

2026-08-20

Last Updated

2026-10-25

McAfee is one of the oldest names in the industry and now covers a much narrower business than the name suggests. Founded by John McAfee in 1987, it was bought by Intel in 2011 and traded as Intel Security, returned to its own name in 2017, listed, and then went private again in March 2022 when an investor group led by Advent International and Permira bought it for more than 14 billion dollars. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. The part that matters for this index is the split that happened just before that. In 2021 McAfee sold its enterprise business, which was merged with FireEye's products arm and renamed Trellix in 2022. Both companies appear here, and they are no longer related: anything McAfee sells today is for households, not organisations. The current line is McAfee+, sold as Essential, Premium and Advanced tiers, which bundle identity monitoring, personal data cleanup, a VPN and scam protection around the antivirus rather than selling the antivirus alone. The older McAfee Total Protection and McAfee AntiVirus Plus names remain on the lower-priced, device-focused plans. Vendor page →

Website

mcafee.com

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸San Jose, United States

Year Established

1987

Customers

50K organisations

Users

600M devices protected

Revenue

$1.9B (2021)