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McAfee All Access
- Company
- McAfee
- Version
- 14.1 (parental control part)
- Devices supported
- Computer
- Operating system
- Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows Vista
Windows XP - Price *
- 49.99 €
- Language of interface
- chinese, czech, danish, dutch, english, french, german, hebrew, hungarian, italian, japanese, korean, norwegian, polish, portuguese, serbian, slovanian, spanish, suomi, swedish, turkish
- Test date
- SIP Bench III, 1st test cycle, Summer 2013
EFFECTIVENESS
The overall effectiveness score is weak on adult content and very weak on other harmful content.
There is no major difference in effectiveness between teenagers and children.
There is no major difference in effectiveness between web and web 2.0.
There is no major difference in effectiveness among the different languages.
There is no major difference in effectiveness between teenagers and children.
There is no major difference in effectiveness between web and web 2.0.
There is no major difference in effectiveness among the different languages.
Effectiveness score with adult content filtering for users up to 12 year old: 2.0
Effectiveness score with other harmful content filtering for users up to 12 year old: 0.0
Effectiveness score with adult content filtering for users 13 years and older: 2.0
Effectiveness score with other harmful content filtering for users 13 years and older: 0.0
Effectiveness score with other harmful content filtering for users up to 12 year old: 0.0
Effectiveness score with adult content filtering for users 13 years and older: 2.0
Effectiveness score with other harmful content filtering for users 13 years and older: 0.0
Effectiveness score for users up to 12 year old: 1.0 out of 4 points
Effectiveness score for users 13 years and older: 1.0 out of 4 points
Effectiveness score for users 13 years and older: 1.0 out of 4 points
USABILITY
Installation of the tool: The installation process is well comprehensible. The installer provides advanced options and can be influenced with regard to kind or amount of information.
Configuration of the tool: The configuration process is comprehensible. The navigation contains some inconsistencies (confusing shortcut navigation at bottom). The process can be individualised with regard to several filter tasks, but it cannot be influenced with regard to kind or amount of information.
Usage of the tool: The tool provides little options to react when a web site has been blocked, but these are mainly addressed to parents and not to children. The alert message is not worded with respect to children's capability of understanding. The reporting is well comprehensible.
Usability of the installation process: 3.0
Usability of the configuration process: 3.0
Usability of the usage of the product: 2.6
Overall score for usability: 2.9 out of 4 points
FUNCTIONALITY
It is possible to create several users and to customize filtering according to age classes. It is possible to customize the webpage filtering according content categories. The parent can indicate specific URLs to be blocked (creation of a black list) or allowed (creation of a white list) by the filter despites the selected categories to be blocked/allowed. Parents can specify time frames for using the internet and monitor children's internet activity. Access to Social Networking can be blocked. It is not possible, however, to block the provision of personal data. Blocking P2P and streaming is also possible.
SECURITY
The tool resisted to the main hacking attempts to by-pass it
Overall score for security: 0 out of 4 points
DETAILED FUNCTIONALITY
| Area of need | Functionality | Specific issues | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management | Management of User profiles | Create several profiles | Yes |
| Remote Management | Manage on various devices | No | |
| Monitoring | Remote access to monitoring | No | |
| Filtering Customisation | Topics | Customisation of Filtering Topics | Yes |
| URLs White List | Restrict Browsing to White List | No | |
| Default White List | No | ||
| Modification OR Creation | Yes | ||
| URLs Black List | Creation of User's own Black List | Yes | |
| Keywords | Keywords | Default Black List | No |
| Default White List | No | ||
| Creation of a User's Black List | No | ||
| Creation of a User's White List | No | ||
| Time | Time Limit Settings | Set a specific time frame or web access duration | Yes |
| Blocking Message | Type | Ask for unblocking by parents | No |
| Redirect to safe resources | No | ||
| Usage Restriction | Web | Block Access | Yes |
| Monitor Access | Yes | ||
| Safe search | Availability | Yes | |
| Social Networks | Block Access | Yes | |
| Monitor Usage | No | ||
| Personal data Provision | Block | No | |
| Streaming | Block Access | Yes | |
| Monitor Access | No | ||
| P2P | Block the application | Yes | |
| Monitor Downloads | No | ||
| Skype | Block chat | No | |
| Block video chat | No | ||
| Monitor | No | ||
| Prevent new Contact | No | ||
| Windows Life Messenger | Block chat | Yes | |
| Block video chat | No | ||
| Monitor | No | ||
| Prevent new Contact | No | ||
| Block email client and/or webmail access | No |
DETAILED USABILITY FINDINGS
| Yes / No | |
|---|---|
| I: installation in 3 steps or less | No |
| I: choice of installation for beginners or advanced users | Yes |
| C: different degrees of strength for the filtering | Yes |
| C: different content criteria for the filtering | Yes |
| C: option to transfer filter configurations between target users | No |
| C: option to transfer filter configurations between devices | No |
| C: overall comprehensible configuration | Yes |
| C: overall conformity with user expectations | Yes |
| C: overall easy to learn | Yes |
| U: alert message in a child friendly language | No |
| U: option to customise the reaction in case of blocking | No |
| U: overall easily operable and comprehensible reporting | Yes |
DETAILED SECURITY FINDINGS
| The Tool prevents the user from by-passing the filter by: | Yes / No |
|---|---|
| Using the IP address instead of the URL | Yes |
| Using an alternative browser | Yes |
| Changing time and date settings* | n/a |
| Disabling or uninstalling the software without a password* | No |
| Closing the filtering tool trough the Task Manager | No |
| Using a proxy instead of a direct connection to the Internet | Yes |
| Accessing the web-pages through the Google Cache | Yes |
| Reaching a website through translation sites | Yes |
| Renaming a blocked application | Yes |
| Using Safe Mode | No |
| Filtering Content personalised by user | No |
| Filtering Content evolving through time | No |
| Filtering Multimedia content | No |
| Filtering outbound content | No |
