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McAfee slows everything to a crawl. Charles Manoras 01-11-2008
Posted by Peacekeeper on January 15, 2008, 1:43 am
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When you removed Norton did you use their removal tool if not bits norton
will still remain to react with mcafee.
Just a thought
Tony

> My Norton subscription having run out I have taken advantage of an offer
> from Comcast (my ISP) to install McAfee for free.
>
> McAfee asked me to remove Norton and the free firewall from Zone Alarm.
>
> Which I did.
>
> Now everything has slowed to an absolute crawl.
>
> The CPU always run at 100%.
>
> Scans take forever and cannot be even be completed overnight.
>
> I have removed what I actually don't need with no effect.
>
> Is this normal?
>
> I run under Windows XP SP2.
>
> I experienced none of this with Norton which I thought was already
> gobbling up a
> lot of resources.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>


Posted by addy999 on January 17, 2008, 1:53 pm
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mcafee and are not the best
they are best only in the marketing via which they fool many number of
users
they are difficult to operate though i would recommend avast and nod32

as they are easy to operate and their virus definitions are very easy
to update
as well comparing to that of mcafee


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Posted by John E on January 20, 2008, 4:58 pm
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>
> mcafee and are not the best
> they are best only in the marketing via which they fool many number of
> users
> they are difficult to operate though i would recommend avast and nod32
>
> as they are easy to operate and their virus definitions are very easy
> to update as well comparing to that of mcafee
>

I use Nod32, which is fine. I visited my sister-in-law this weekend, and she
was having huge problems with her 3 year old Dell desktop (McAfee
installed). After 30 minutes of use, the hard drive started thrashing, and
everything slowed to a crawl. It turned out that there was 30GB of log files
in the MSC sub folder of the application data folder. I assume that the
program was working its way through its own log files (some of which were
over 200 MB in size), and that was the cause of the problem. Deleting all
except the last day's log files put everything right. (But not until I'd
spent a frustrating few hours looking for non-existent malware).

Avoid McAfee - there are a lot better options out there.

John



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