I recently got a Samsung Galaxy s24+ and I noticed the Secure Wifi feature. I looked into it a bit and I understand that its pretty much a VPN but while reading about it I came across that the back end of Secure wifi uses McAfee and I just know they have a bad reputation from their Antivirus protections and wondered peoples opinion on using it? I don’t use much public wifi, I mainly use wifi at my workplace and at home.
I… did not know McAfee also ran that. Not using that anymore…
No, because their Secure Wifi service is a very selective DNS redirection tool, not a VPN. If you read the fine print of the privacy policy and TOS for this app, it states that they won’t encrypt https or other connections that are already encrypted, in a manner consistent with split tunneling, at their discretion.
That might be safe enough for some people, but that’s definitely not secure enough for me.
No, if I need that, I will use Cloudflare WARP
I remember having this feature but last I tried, it said not supported, where is this feature again, can you help me navigate?
No, i use NextDNS and if necessary I use Surfshark.
No because it’s unnecessary. Even on unsecured public wifi everything you’re doing is still private because of https. The only thing people can see is the website you’re on.
First… McAfee… bad rep? It’s the only one I’ve ever used, and that’s been at least two decades. Never ever had any problems, with them or my computer.
Second, didn’t know the secure wifi was run by them, and was doing a search to find out that very thing. If that is so, then it’s safe to say, that I’ll be using it… on the rare occasion I need to use wifi outside of my home.
Tried it when I had the A53 new. It ran out after 1GB. right then VPN became available through Google1. (Which will be taken out from the lowest paying plan in the coming days…).
OTOH, not really a need for it.
I used it on my work wifi, should I stop?
they have a bad reputation from their Antivirus protections
Why do people hate McAfee? Is it a bad antivirus protection wise, or do they have some shady business practices, or what exactly is the reason people dislike it?
McAfee? I wonder how they could still be relevant in the world of security. So that’s like saying your phone definitely won’t be secure when you’re using Wi-Fi. I keep seeing them at or near the top of best rated a/v products, obviously a paid position. Theyre like the Biden/Harris of the a/v world… sick.
Yea I didn’t realize at first either… It’s not very clear when you go to enable it on your phone , you have to go digging for it
Interesting! I assumed it would be working if I was browsing the internet and was skeptical about banking apps but from your description sounds like there would be a number of apps it probably wouldn’t work for so I agree seems not really secure enough
Thanks for that insight.
Never heard of this so just googled it and sounds pretty interesting, definitely looking into this a bit more
You can pull down your notification bar and add it as a quick select option there otherwise go to settings, security and privacy, more security settings, then secure wifi or could use your phone search in the settings and should come up if your phone has it
Yea finding out how it operates more or less is making me realize that it’s unnecessary for what I’m trying to achieve so I won’t be using it myself
Love, there are still sites that use http, and even those that do, there are plenty that only have a basic, bare-bones level certificate… Just to get that lock symbol on their site to make it look “secure.”
So, no, not everything you do on “unsecured wifi” is private.
Well, good for you. And thanks for the laugh.