# McAfee 'Personal Firewall' Win 8.1

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-personal-firewall-win-8-1/732163 "2015-09-21T23:47:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-personal-firewall-win-8-1/732163/1 "2015-09-21T23:47:55Z")

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Tried search - nothing within last year.

Does the ‘McAfee Personal Firewall’ (30 days free with PC) do anything except manage the Windows Firewall? I pulled up the Windows version and it had a brightly colored bar announcing that it was ‘being managed by McAfee Personal Firewall’.  
That make me think maybe all I get for my money is a program which turns on a function I can turn on all by myself.

I bought the AVG Maintenance suite and am happy with it. Not so happy with AVG’s selling of data, but better that the nagging I got from McAfee to set up a Microsoft account.

Here’s one you haven’t heard in a while:  
“It’s not the money - it’s the principle of the thing”!

😉