WinXP Performance

[Zoro]

Hi,

Would appreciate that some kind souls to help me?

I have installed Mcafee 4.5.1 SP1 onto my new IBM XP
machine. But after sometime or a few reboots, the machine
starts to become slow.

I looked at the performance in Task Manager. It always
stays at 100% CPU utilisation. After I end the vshield
task, the performance % dropped drastically down to less
than 10%.

Wonder anybody had come across this situation.
Had tried serveral solutions in the website and from NAI
but the problem still exist.

Could someone out there help me please.

 

[Harry]

From previous experience, I have always had problems with
McAfee being a cpu hog and really slowing down the
system. I have since changed to Norton and am overly
satisfied with the product. No substantial system
degradation.

 

[Guest]

That would've been my assessment as well. Although I
prefer TrendMicro (mostly for the email) I would agree
that McAfee is a big CPU user.

 

[pele]

Hi

A friend of mine has the same problem on a custom build
machine with XP Pro. I'll let you know if I find an
answer.

 

[R. McCarty]

McAfee's Real-Time-Scanner will impact the performance of your
PC. Unfortunately, this is a trait of McAfee that dates back several
years/versions. You might try to update your software and see if
the patches will improve the situation. Otherwise, your only other
option is to uninstall McAfee and purchase a different Anti-Virus
software package. There are a number of Free/Shareware versions
that you can try before deciding.