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McAfee Secure - Really worth it?

by eddiejames
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Just been on the phone to McAfee, launching a new site for one of our brands shortly and figured it may be worth getting one for our website.

They quoted me $1479/year (123/mo) to start with, then I managed to get them down to around 900/year. Which I still thought seemed expensive, considering you only get a simple badge for your site?

Our payments are handled by third parties anyway, so is it really worth forking out upwards of $75/month for a GIF image just to give our customers piece of mind?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
#mcafee #secure #worth
  • Profile picture of the author pwebbiz
    I'm not 100% sure what "McAfee Secure" does but if you want to create a sense of security use a TurboSSL from GoDaddy and display that certificate - it's only $15 / yr and is much better than nothing IMHO.
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  • Profile picture of the author AOCenteno
    Have you asked your customers? Maybe you could do a survey of past customers and see how many almost didn't buy because of this issue? Are your competitors using these security badges?

    For me, I think there are many other, less expensive things you can do to make your customers feel secure such as a great about us page with an address, pictures of the staff, etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jose Delgado
      Am I understanding correct that for $900 all you bet is a simple image?!

      If that is the case, It is not worth it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        I just recently installed a mcafee site advisor thingee on my browser.

        I don't know how much help it is to pay for this service. You can have some people submit your site and who ever has siteadvisor installed will see a little green check mark next to the site while browsing.

        I submitted a site and didn't have to pay anything.

        I don't need no stinkin badges[]

        I think that is way too much money.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    You need to test. On a sports betting membership site of mine, a Mcafee secure badger decreased sales on average by 17%. Probably because people start thinking about security, something that was not an issue in their minds while reading the copy.

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  • Profile picture of the author billyc
    Yeah, I think these images are worth it. I found a site not too long ago that talked about it. It was trusttheseller.com (Not all that great of a site but had some useful information on it). It helped me get a good grasp on why the images help so much.
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  • Profile picture of the author eddiejames
    Wow, this thread is old!

    Didn't end up going through with the trust logo - but we did get an EV SSL certificate recently for our new payment gateway. It makes the browser bar appear green - I feel this has a stronger impact that a lousy GIF image which you pay $100/month for!
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  • Profile picture of the author Franck Silvestre
    For a simple badge, you can use honest online. I have it on my site, it's $30 per month and it's well known on the Internet.

    You can see it in action at the bottom of my site.

    I'm sure mac afee is worth it too.

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  • Profile picture of the author markshields
    Im not sure about McAfee I just know that when I bought a brand new top of the range computer it seemed to crash alot with McAfee on it and without it ran perfectly but maybe it was just me
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    • Profile picture of the author Franck Silvestre
      Hey, we are talking about mcafee badge, not the antivirus software.

      Franck

      Originally Posted by markshields View Post

      Im not sure about McAfee I just know that when I bought a brand new top of the range computer it seemed to crash alot with McAfee on it and without it ran perfectly but maybe it was just me
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  • Profile picture of the author rainmist
    I am not sure what's features of McAfee Secure. If it only provide a gif, price is too high. You can have many choice to replace them. If they can do more jobs, you can take them into consideration.
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