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McAfee SLOW !
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 ! ... |
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McAfee SLOW !
Steve Giannoni wrote:
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....) |
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Thanks for responding.
Where on the McAfee site is the removal tool? On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:15:13 +0100, Sjouke Burry wrote: Steve Giannoni wrote: 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....) |
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Steve Giannoni wrote:
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. |
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"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message ... Steve Giannoni wrote: 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. 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. -- Tinkerer |
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"Steve Giannoni" wrote in message
... 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 ! ... Full scans are slow because they are checking everything. Other than when you first install it any subsequent scanning is of dubious benefit - especially given that it should scan everything you try to load or run. So whether the full system scan is slow or fast really shouldn't matter. Its whether it detects and blocks any nasties which is the important thing. That said, like Sjouke has suggested, there are other anti-virus products out there for you to take your pick of. If you are using your PC for work then you will have to pay for your anti-virus (unless you use Comodo anti-virus) so sticking with McAfee is probably reasonable. If on the other hand your PC is for private non-commercial use then there are lots of antiv-virus products for you to choose from which won't cost you a penny. I probably ought to update this list, but these are the free ones I know of: http://www.cryer.co.uk/resources/antivirus.htm Personally I'd recommend AVG, but I recognise that avast (Sjouke's recommendation) does seem the more popular. -- Brian Cryer www.cryer.co.uk/brian |
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"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message
... Steve Giannoni wrote: 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....) Avira Antivirus has excellent detection rates, low resource overheads and has a free version. |
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I don't get a "next" or any win popupwindows picture ...
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:02:55 +0100, Sjouke Burry wrote: Steve Giannoni wrote: 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. |
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On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:07 -0500, Steve Giannoni
wrote: 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 ! ... .... and? There's no reason to expect or need full scans to be ultra-fast. Either you are satisfied with the product when it isn't doing the scan or you aren't and for that reason it should be replaced. |
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It looks like McAfee does a full scan once per week by default. It
actually takes considerably less than my estimate of 5 hours. On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:23:14 -0500, kony wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:07 -0500, Steve Giannoni wrote: 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 ! ... ... and? There's no reason to expect or need full scans to be ultra-fast. Either you are satisfied with the product when it isn't doing the scan or you aren't and for that reason it should be replaced. |
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