McAfee Safe Wi-Fi for Android
McAfee® Safe Wi-Fi protects you by managing your Wi-Fi connections. The app automatically turns your smartphone’s Wi-Fi off when you leave a hotspot you trust, and turns it back on when you’re near a safe, known network.
Turning Wi-Fi off when you don’t want to connect is also a great way to extend your battery life.
Your phone’s Wi-Fi isn’t as secure as you think
When Wi-Fi is on, your smartphone is broadcasting:
• its unique identifier (MAC address)
• names of Wi-Fi networks (SSIDs) you’ve previously connected to
That’s all that’s needed to track your location or — here’s the scary part — trick your phone into connecting to a risky imposter network.
This means if you use a hotel’s Wi-Fi then stop at a coffee shop, someone in the coffee shop could set up an imposter Wi-Fi hotspot using the hotel network’s name. Why? To trick your phone into connecting to it so they can steal your personal info.
Protecting your privacy
McAfee® Safe Wi-Fi uses cell tower IDs to know where you are and only turns Wi-Fi on when you’re in a cell zone containing a hotspot you trust.
The app also lets you know when your phone connects to a Wi-Fi network, so you always know what’s happening.
This means:
• your movements can’t be tracked through Wi-Fi
• you’ll know when your phone connects to a Wi-Fi hotspot
• your battery will last longer with Wi-Fi turned off
McAfee® Safe Wi-Fi respects your privacy and doesn’t collect your personal info, but the app might ask for some permissions to protect your device better. Best of all — it’s a free app with no ads.
Connects to my WiFi network automatically :)
Simple. Astoundingly simple.
Gud
Awesome app
the best
Though it's a great app for privacy I do not understand how to turn off WiFi at home? As this app trusted my Home Network hence gets connected to it always. I am not able to disable WiFi when I don't want to use it. Please tell me how to recover from this issue? Or do you have any future plans to add any feature that let user manually disable WiFi. Overall app looks good.
This app is always there in the background and, when it's needed, it lets me know if there is safe WiFi available. It will even hook me up to networks I've used in the past automatically,
Keep finding my WiFi is on even though I'm nowhere near one of my hotspots. Think it might get confused when I use VPN. Would be useful to be able to see and delete locations linked to each WiFi network.
Does everything expected. Have to spend a lot of time now using a hospital wifi that is definitely unsecure. Get warnings when risks appear.
I liked the smart and simple app for saving my battery as well as keeping me safe.
Keep the hacker's out of your phone
I looked everywhere until I found this app. I don't mean to be a smart alec, but if you want to know what it does, read the description like I did!
Rarely auto connects when I come into my home. I have to manually connect.
Does the job as expected...
I can't even get into my home wireless
Happy Days. No more strange cars idling by your parking spot at Taco Bell to tap in on your unsecured WiFi.
A real feel of security!
Briji Garia Kolkata
MD NAJIM
Excellent app
LOVE IT!!!
Perfect!!!
Installed almost all your Applications into my mobile and the results is what so ever I open application it shows messages till application close and after. Continuously covered with different pop-up messages. So,the reason not to see full application nor understand what's going on behind message. Finally I decided to remove all applications from my phone.
I'm doing something wrong? Supposed to b easy/safe, I imagine it might b if it'd ever connect...to a lamp post. or coat hanger something!! Needs more choices to able did able, n why on app earth would it it KEEP "I don't know (this site) in a LIST THAT CONFUSES the User & ITSELF & ultimately just turns off like a folded up B+€℅Π}????? Often Useless. ?? Needs to Show ? much Data its SAVING USER & needs MORE WORK. (My Opinion). Tankx I Hope.
I am very happy with McAfee, this is the best antivirus, anti malware ect. Never have a problem with this app, works great and keeps my phone's and tablets, PC safe. Thank you McAfee
In your FAQ section you have "How to I connect to a new network". You really should have it proof read. If I like the app I'll come back and change it to a 5 star.
It doesn't re-connect automatically when I am home and there is no way to change it to a known location
I like the app, but it needs to incorporate more user setting. I would like to see a remembered network settings to add, edit, or remove stored Wi-Fi networks. Also the ability to mark saved networks as favorite/priority type of connection.
nice work guy , as of today 6/3/2016 the phone been freeze up constant , Don not knowing why . Even the phone was home wi-fi has been connected. But phone still not responding
I've only had that Apple short while seems to work fine don't have issues
Keeps sending notices evwn when switched off. Also keeps notifying of secured WI FI sites as cannot set to 'Ignore ' unless you want to spend a lot of time repeatedly telling the system they do not download
This app is completely useless! I still have unwanted WiFi networks connecting to my phone. I then have to manually disable and disconnect. What a waste of time from McAfee!?
This working on my Samsung Galaxy phone with no problems has stopped two website so far nice one
I switched off my WiFi on my phone, only for the app to switch it back in again. I had to forcibly stop the app in settings to prevent it from switching on my WiFi when I explicitly switched it off. EDIT: No fix THREE months after reporting WiFi issue - Not a high priority clearly!!
So I download this app and so far I like it!
Its very good to start with i have had to reinstall a few times
Keep it up!
Not too bad, would like 1 or 2 extra functions
But app says is working, and I can't tell so I guess that's a good things, it's working seamlessly uninterrupted. So until I find out otherwise that it's not working I will give it 5 Starz. Good job on a great product.
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Just love it