As some of you know, my computer crashed a few days ago. Got it up and running, and installed McAfee Total Protection before hooking it back up to the internet. Until today, I hadn't noticed a whole lot of difference, but after spending some time on the 'puter today, it seems like I have to wait for one website to finish "doing it's thing" until I can switch over to another tab. Running IE7. Anyone else notice this? Kind of annoying, but if this is as bad as it gets...I'll deal with it! LOL

 

With the crash you may have to re-tweak the puter to get your speed up. If you weren't running any anti-virus software previously, it will be allot slower than what you were used to.

 

That is kind of what I thought. I had some programs to watch over the kiddies and thought it would do antivirus and all that too. Found out the hard way that it didn't! LOL Thanks Rick, guess it'll just take some getting used to!

 

Most likely just the way it's going to be from here on out. You can try increasing your ram, it may help a little. Personally, I had a bad experience with McAfee so I went back to Norton and see no reason to change again.

 

Care to share the experience? Anything I should be concerned with?

 

Nothing too bad, just a virus that got by McAfee. Never have had that problem with Norton.

 

Here's some suggestions.
1-Dump McAffee it's garbage. (Don't take it personal Norton is garbage as well.)
2-Go to http://free.grisoft.com/ and download the free version of AVG (not the trial but the free.) It's got to be the very best anti virus I've ever used and it's free as long as your not using it on corporate machines. You can use it there too but they don't want you to.
I did for a while until i found it at Fry's with a rebate that made it end up as free anyway.
3- Stop using I.E. accept when you absolutely have to. It's garbage as well.
4- Get Firefox. It has tabbed browsing as well and is what prompted I.E. to start using it.
5- Go to http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php and download the free version of AdAware. You could have some spy ware slowing things down.
6- go here and download Zone Alarm, it's free and is a much better firewall than the windows firewall on your machine.
Make sure you uninstall any previous anti virus before installing another... They never play well together.
I've been using these utilities for several yrs. I've had 2 viruses during that time and AVG detected them as they were trying to load and killed em before they could actually do anything.

 

I had to get rid of McAfee for the same reason - it slowed everything to a crawl.

 

Glad I saved the receipt! Hopefully I can exchange it out......hard to say what Staples will have to say!?

 

ditto what capt ron said, but I use the avg spyware tool as well as the virus protection.......... awesome stuff, the virus stuff updates daily, the spyware is manual update after a month of daily free updates.

 

Did you do any "Windows Security Updates" at the same time? I noticed slower performance on 3 different computers very recently after installing the latest updates. I don't have any proof BUT .

 

Yea I noticed that AVG has a spyware tool now.
I haven't tried it though. I already had AdAware and Spybot and I don't like having to much stuff running on my machine. That'll slow em down as well. I haven't really found a registry cleaner that I'm comfortable with either so I don't like to have to uninstall things that will leave little orphan files behind unless I absolutely have to.

 

Who ever said Norton and McAffee are garbage is 100% right!

Download Avast or AVG anti virus for FREE on the internet and you'll be set for life and wont look back.

 

ooooo for registry cleaning and general cleanup, ya cant beat crap cleaner, trust it, if it lists an item in the registry scan, let it get rid of it, first run on a machine may take three runs to get all of them out, but you will be surprised on how much junk is lost in there, it also gets rid of temp internet files nicely. It is also free, file hippo .com has reliable, clean dloads for avg virus, spyware, and crapcleaner.

 

Antivirus kicks on for us and slows our other systems down as well. We usually just shut it off, because we can't afford the slow down. It never finds anything because we also have firewalls and have downloaded antispyware.