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Posted by Silvvers on October 15, 2006, 11:22 am
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> wrote:
>
>>Our ISP provides free keys for up to three machines for the F-Secure
>>Anti-virus, but I have found that it is almost totally incompatible with
>>my
>>Athlon systems. One of my Athlons (XP 2400+ 2.0 ghz, 1GB ram) wouldn't
>>even
>>boot once it was installed. The other one, (XP 2000 1.67 Ghz, 1 GB ram)
>>ran--but barely. However, our machine with a Pentium 4 does seems to
>>handle
>>the program a little better. What is the point of an anti-virus program
>>that slows your computer to a crawl? Anyone else have this problem with
>>F-Secure?
>>
>>I changed back to McAfee 10.0
>
> I bet if you remove McAfee properly it would work fine. Yeah it's
> kinda heavy but not near as intrusive as McAfee's consumer stuff.
>
> --
> Regards, Ian Kenefick
> http://www.ik-cs.com
One of the machines never had McAfee on it. I think I did a pretty good job
of removing all traces of it, including registry keys and folders. I just
can't see the point of an application that makes a machine run so slow.
What do you find intrusive about McAfee? I buy the CD at Costco, so I don't
have to deal with their automatic renewal shenanigans.
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