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The self-hosted McAfee alternative

McAfee provides cloud and endpoint cybersecurity services including antivirus/anti-malware, endpoint protection, threat detection and response, firewall/VPN, identity/privacy tools, and centralized security management for users and organizations.

Alternatives to McAfee

ClamAV is an open-source antivirus toolkit providing a multi-threaded daemon, command-line scanners, and automatic signature updates for mail gateways and file scanning.

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What replacing McAfee actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Network Security (VPN, Firewall, WAF).

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