Is activating mcafee required to get 100% optimisation on the S9/S9+?

[Gayle Lynn]

I’m not a fan of Samsung’s choices for Cheetah as part of its Device Maintenance.

 

[Manasvi Sareen]

Ok, I activated it! I wanted the 100% (the guilty pleasure). Now,

1) How to disable it?
2) If I don't disable it, is it a active scan which keep running in background? Or just when I optimise my device?
3) I want to use kaspersky internet security, is there is a side effect if I use it in parallel?
4) and why Samsung hates it's customers?

 

[r511]

1 - Going to settings then apps you should be able to disable from there. You might have to stop permissions first.
2 - I'm sure it's something that stays somewhat active. It's always been a system hog on PC.
3 - Not really sure about running parallel. I think it would just be added battery usage.
4 - I don't think Samsung hates their customers.. Lol.. Just because 20 or 30 people on forums complain about their device, they still have millions and millions using the devices with no problem.
Wish I could help more with the anti-virus questions. But in my opinion anti-virus software is absolute nonsense. Like having tits on a bull.

 

[strikeIII]

I have the ATT version and can hit 100 without any AV installed. Make sure your Device Maintenance app is up to date as well. There was an update released not too long ago.

 

[Sam_Gs7]

Hey! guys greets from Sam: Should I create another thread
or wait for advice here. My case is the opposite I do have
Kaspersky mobile security installed on my Sam-Gs7


But when I do the Phone maintenance it reach only 90%
optimization, when I disable kaspersky app and do
the maintenance reach 100% optimization

anybody knows a trick to keep my kaspersky On
to reach the 100% optimization.? Bye

 

[Belzybob]

I contacted Samsung about the McAfee removal. I voiced my views on what they had done, mentioned the low regard that McAfee is held by most of the tech-savvy community and asked how to remove it. The reply was you cannot, but my feedback would be passed up the line.

Maybe if enough people direct these questions directly to Samsung, then something might get done.

 

[Belzybob]

@chacha

I disagree totally. They are trying to force you into loading third party software which at a later point requires payment. If the 10% was only made available once I had installed decent AV software, then I would have no objections. I already have a subscription that covers my personal devices.

 

[chanchan05]

@chacha

I disagree totally. They are trying to force you into loading third party software which at a later point requires payment. If the 10% was only made available once I had installed decent AV software, then I would have no objections. I already have a subscription that covers my personal devices.

It does not require payment at a later point. Not once in my 2 years with an S7 Edge and McAfee activated did it ever ask for payment.

The service is just 'powered by McAfee'. Meaning Samsung paid McAfee to use their anti malware engine instead of developing their own. There is no difference to this and AVG using the Avast antivirus engine. Avast doesn't ask you money even if you're using their stuff through AVG.

There is of course a button to get the full McAfee suite, but it never forced you anything. It's entirely your choice to ignore or not ignore that. Whatever choice you make won't change a thing other than an additional 10 points anyway.

 

[scottbeamer]

I'm on Verizon and glad I dont have the security option

You do have an ugly font, though, so there's that.

 

[scottbeamer]

I don't understand why your phone has McAfee integrated. My S9+ doesn't.

 

[lindajm22]

I don't have McAfee and I am almost always at 100% and if it's slightly less I can optimize and it will always reach 100%. What am I missing?

 

[lindajm22]

My screen also looks different. I have a Verizon S9+.

 

[chanchan05]

My screen also looks different. I have a Verizon S9+. //uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180430/ee9b5fbcda395ca232fb5c98a85f9efd.jpg

Verizon could have removed it. I know Verizon removes built in stuff so you would have to use their solution. For example overseas, Samsung Messages has an option called Enhanced Messages in the settings, which basically makes it send full res videos and pics over wifi. Basically Samsung iMessage, but I recall that people told me the setting is missing in Verizon phones.

 

[Belzybob]

It does not require payment at a later point. Not once in my 2 years with an S7 Edge and McAfee activated did it ever ask for payment.

The service is just 'powered by McAfee'. Meaning Samsung paid McAfee to use their anti malware engine instead of developing their own. There is no difference to this and AVG using the Avast antivirus engine. Avast doesn't ask you money even if you're using their stuff through AVG.

There is of course a button to get the full McAfee suite, but it never forced you anything. It's entirely your choice to ignore or not ignore that. Whatever choice you make won't change a thing other than an additional 10 points anyway.

OK, so maybe I should have said 'with the intent of getting you to purchase McAfee'. Still smacks of a dictatorial imposition regardless.

For those posters that are unaware of what is being talked about, this is a bit from a past press release:

"McAfee on Tuesday said it will be providing security solutions for select Samsung devices including the latest flagship smartphones, Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. The partnership with Samsung also covers Galaxy Note 8 smartphone and Smart TVs, PCs and notebooks.

Announced at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Note 8 smartphones will come pre-installed with anti-malware protection by McAfee “VirusScan” and Samsung “Secure Wi-Fi” service for which McAfee provides the backend infrastructure. "

 

[chanchan05]

OK, so maybe I should have said 'with the intent of getting you to purchase McAfee'. Still smacks of a dictatorial imposition regardless.

For those posters that are unaware of what is being talked about, this is a bit from a past press release:

"McAfee on Tuesday said it will be providing security solutions for select Samsung devices including the latest flagship smartphones, Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. The partnership with Samsung also covers Galaxy Note 8 smartphone and Smart TVs, PCs and notebooks.

Announced at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Note 8 smartphones will come pre-installed with anti-malware protection by McAfee “VirusScan” and Samsung “Secure Wi-Fi” service for which McAfee provides the backend infrastructure. "

The only difference I see is that there is an option to get full McAfee instead of none. No one is forcing you to buy anything.

Although of course that is McAfee's intent (all companies want money), you don't even need to see their name or the buy button ever again after the free activation.

From Samsung's point of view, taking their shoes it just looks to me like McAfee is providing them in exchange for the buy button. So Sammy saves money not having to develop and maintain a malware detector, but still have full feature. Plus it's up to the user to activate and buy, and then they hide it somewhere were you can ignore once and never deal with it again. There's no overhead since as far as I can tell it's only a manual scan too, so you can still use your own ideal software instead.

 

[Al Kasakowski]

It's a setup to get you to hit the button and autopay for it. Like someone said it looks for the VPN tunnel from McAfee?
I buy Norton for all my machines, up to 10 PC's and phones, I have a VPN tunnel with Norton wifi privacy, and I only get 90% with the sucker button just sitting there asking to be pushed. What I do is maintenance there and check performance with Samsung +. I also use PassMark Performance test mobile for real benchmarking. I always get 100% on the Samsung +, and I am right were I should be, just behind the Razer and Sony on the PassMark. I use it on my pc's and laptops too.

 

[Bankokbob54]

Don't worry about the different screen. Makes no difference. It may be the region, it may not. I'm in the Philippines and mine looks the same as yours.

 

[Bankokbob54]

I agree. I just tapped on the get McAfee button, and got those 10 points to bring my optimization to 100. So far I see no markers asking me to buy anything. The only potential issue I'm watching for is battery drain. No other concern at this time.

 

[Hermes Hidayat]

I dont use any anti virus. Nor did i activate McAfee and optimization always hit 100...

 

[Deepcuts]

I know McAfee was bought by Intel, but for me, the name will always be tied to unwanted bloatware and useless software.
Even if I was getting payed to use any software branded McAfee, I wouldn't.