McAfee SLOW !

[Steve Giannoni]

P-IV running Windows XP with McAfee recently installed. Full system
scans take more than 5 hours. Informed comments and any help greatly
appreciated & thanks ! ...

 

[Sjouke Burry]

P-IV running Windows XP with McAfee recently installed. Full system
scans take more than 5 hours. Informed comments and any help greatly
appreciated & thanks ! ...

Get the macafee removal tool from their site,
and install avast.
macafee(and norton)are resource hogs.
(and yet you have to pay for them....)

 

[Steve Giannoni]

Thanks for responding.
Where on the McAfee site is the removal tool?

 

[Sjouke Burry]

Thanks for responding.
Where on the McAfee site is the removal tool?
goto:
http://service.mcafee.com/

click "goto technical support"
click "start"
click "next" below the win popupwindows picture
save the file offered, and run it.

 

[Tinkerer]

click "goto technical support"
click "start"
click "next" below the win popupwindows picture
save the file offered, and run it.

I also have run AVG, Avast and various other "freebie" anti-virus packages
and have found them to be excellent. You may however want to look at the
one I am currently using "Microsoft Security Essentials". MS are not
pushing this (probably in case of class action suits) but it is available
free from their website, updates with Windows Update and so far seems pretty
impressive.

 

[GT]

Get the macafee removal tool from their site,
and install avast.
macafee(and norton)are resource hogs.
(and yet you have to pay for them....)

Avira Antivirus has excellent detection rates, low resource overheads and
has a free version.

 

[Steve Giannoni]

I don't get a "next" or any win popupwindows picture ...

 

[Steve Giannoni]

It looks like McAfee does a full scan once per week by default. It
actually takes considerably less than my estimate of 5 hours.

 

[Steve Giannoni]

Looks like it can be disabled or modified in McAfee too.