P/C slow as molassas after McAffe install

Bodaggit23 · 07-01-2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by teddysmith1952

I installed McAfee

Did you uninstall Norton first?

teddysmith1952 · 07-01-2009, 08:03 PM

Yes I unistalled norton completely before I downloaded Mcaffe.

richardcooper · 07-02-2009, 05:06 PM

Hi teddysmith1952,

Try using AVG 8.5.375, i have been using it for long and has been very effective doesn't slowdown your PC & works great when Live.

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konsole · 07-02-2009, 06:38 PM

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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!

I've tried that free Macafee from Comcast also and I too had slow down issues. I would get AVG Anti-Virus free edition. The 144 GB is your hard drive and that probably means you have a 160 GB hard drive with about 1/3 free space left. The 2.20 ghz is your processor speed, which if its single core is a bit slow. The 448MB sounds like your memory, definately a small amount and sounds like you have an uneven setup of memory sticks in the computer (even setup would be 2 x 512mb sticks or 4 x 256 mb sticks).

**johnb35** · 07-02-2009, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by konsole

I've tried that free Macafee from Comcast also and I too had slow down issues. I would get AVG Anti-Virus free edition. The 144 GB is your hard drive and that probably means you have a 160 GB hard drive with about 1/3 free space left. The 2.20 ghz is your processor speed, which if its single core is a bit slow. The 448MB sounds like your memory, definately a small amount and sounds like you have an uneven setup of memory sticks in the computer (even setup would be 2 x 512mb sticks or 4 x 256 mb sticks).

I already explained that back in post #5.

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teddysmith1952 Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 62	Yes I unistalled norton completely before I downloaded Mcaffe.

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richardcooper New Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1	Hi teddysmith1952, Try using AVG 8.5.375, i have been using it for long and has been very effective doesn't slowdown your PC & works great when Live. __________________ Richard Reach us for Outsourcing in Bpo and Call center