Sounds very familiar, John. Years ago I was a regular user of McAfee, but
not for the past 4 years or so, for just the reason your daughter describes.
Similar experience with Symantec/Norton. Try Avast or AVGFree - both free
and regularly updated.
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hudson [mailto:OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 December 2008 14:29
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] OT - question re anti-virus program
Please excuse this OT question but I am sure somebody will have a quick and
short answer.
Does the McAfee anti-virus / utility / anti-spam package have a reputation
for slowing down one's computer when being run in "background and always
alert" mode? On the assumption that all such software causes some degree of
slowdown is McAfee worse than the competition?
Our daughter has recently taken out a 30 day subscription to the McAfee
package and tells me that her computer has really started to slow down
making her feel that McAfee is churning in the background and slowing up the
works.
jh
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