Re: McAfee slows everything to a crawl.

You're only getting one way protection with Windows firewall.

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"Charles Manoras" <inconnu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.



I did the same thing for the same reason but what comes to mind is you get
what you pay for and McAfee drove me nuts with all the interruptions and
questions that seemed to be popping up every other minute, that I
sometimes didn't even understand enough to make the right choice and as a
result wound up having to reformat my PC. I went back to Norton A/V and
things couldn't run any smoother than they are now (knock wood).... As for
the firewall.... I am getting along fine with the one that came with my
Windows XP SP2... again, no problems.. The simpler, the better for someone
with my limited PC knowledge...





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