How to renew McAfee : It is easy to renew McAfee software through the official portal of McAfee. If you own a subscription to any of the products, you are entitled to receive version updates and software upgrades for the whole of the lifetime of the subscription.
Your subscription software is automatically counted towards the McAfee Auto-Renewal program on purchase of the subscription. You may read the EULA (End-User License Agreement) for more details: http://home.mcafee.com/Root/AboutUs.aspx?id=eula
You will be billed automatically on your credit card before one month of the expiry of your subscription. Once billed, your subscription will be extended for another year.
In case your auto-renewal has been disabled, you will be getting a message eleven months after installing the product or the software on your computer. This will inform you that your license or key is about to expire. You can choose to extend your subscription by manually renewing your license for another year or buy an upgrade for your software.
In case you decide to cancel Auto-Renewal of your subscription, you will be reminded one month in advance before the subscription ends or renews.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to renew your McAfee software subscription for McAfee products. Please follow the steps below to do the same.
Using the Virtual Assistant
You may use McAfee Virtual Assistant if you need online guidance during the renewal process. It is simple and straightforward to use.
Manually renewing your subscription
Follow the steps below to manually renew your McAfee software subscription:
- Visit the homepage of McAfee at http://home.mcafee.com/
- Hover your mouse cursor over My Account and then click on Sign In from the options.
- Enter your registered email address and password. Then click on Log In.
- Hover over My Account and then click on
- Click Renew for selecting the proper service.
- Follow the on-screen instructions if McAfee requests you for your billing information details.
Note: Unless offered with a special price, you will be charged the current price for your subscription towards the McAfee product. - Once the renewal process is completed, you will get a confirmation message regarding your purchase. You can take out a print of this confirmation message and keep it for your future reference. You may also access your purchase history later by visiting your Subscriptions page in your account panel at a future date.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Why does prompts display to renew a subscription when it is already renewed?
There can be various reasons that you are seeing prompts. For instance, you may have renewed one product, but another product is pending renewal. Then the prompt to renew your subscription will display. There may also be a problem with the product unable to connect to McAfee renewal servers. - How to renew expired products?
If a renewal license is purchased after product expiry, then a popup message is displayed mentioning that the software has expired. Since the expired product can’t receive updates, it also cannot receive notifications regarding the date of change of expiry. This can be fixed after renewing the product. In order to stop receiving the message, uninstall and reinstall the software.
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