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Originally Posted by teddysmith1952
Hi all,
Help! My Norton subscription expired and instead of $50.00 per year renewel, I installed McAfee which I discovered was free as a comcast subscriber. Install went fine but now my P/C is 75% slower. I'm not very computer literate. I have a 4 year old Compaq Presario with 144GB (memory?) with 50GB free. In terms of RAM it shows 2.20GHz, 448MB.
I did some searching and discovered that most anti virus programs are 'hogs" but McAffee seems to be one of the biggest. Would appreciate any suggestions on another anti virus program, preferably free as I'm currently unemployed.
Thank you!
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Looks like you have 160 gb hard drive, not memory. And you have 512mb of memory with 64mb being shared with the video, hence 448mb left. With less than 1gb of memory you shouldn't be installing Nortons or Mcafee. Suggest AVG or any other free antivirus which doesn't take up much memory such as Avira and Avast. If possible, I would upgrade your system to at least 2gb of memory. Your speed could be related toward what processor you are running as well. Hopefully its not a celeron.