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Hi All,
I feel Mc Affee VirusScan makes the system very slow.
At my office, whenever I disable the VirusScan, the system works fine, else it works very slow. Same is happening at my home also.
Is it true or is there any setting which is missing?
Thanks
Regards,
Riya
1. Only run ONE interactive virus scanner.
2. Only run one software firewall.
3. Disable all startup programs that you do not immediately need. Start things when you need them, then close them when you have finished.
4. Defragment your HDD in safe mode (that defragments the virus signature files ;) ).
5. Disable the scan on file closure option.
Check your running processes, particularly automatic updates.
McAfee and Norton are rather resource hogs, however you may have conflicts. The best policy is to run as little as possible at any one time.
Check for program updates. AV and operating system.
:)
EDIT: And if you disable your AV, you might as well not have it?
Good Day,
In addtion to Nihil's suggestions you might consider investing in some more memory sticks. With reducing the number of processes running and increasing the memory, you should most definitely witness an significant change.
cheers
Hiya RiyaQuote:
I feel Mc Affee VirusScan makes the system very slow.
Yes McAfee is really slow if you are still on patch level 10 and lower. There is a problem with regards to the buffer overflow protection which causes problems with the anti-virus system itself. You have to apply patch level 11. Get your System Administrator to use the policy orchestrator/epo to deliver the patch to your computer or you gonna cry whenever its starts its scan32.exe.
This is true for Win2K and XP. You also have to take note of your Operating System Patch Level as certain missing patches could also affect the Anti-Virus Scanner.
Hope This helps. Enjoy the day Further.
Happy New Year to all and Seasons Greetings ....
I think you are right. I am facing the similar problem.
Can i get the patch 11 from their site?
Greeting's
Go here and select "product patches's" from download menu. I got a prompt saying you cannot get any updates because you Anti-virus version is too old you need to upgrade, but anyway that shouldnt matter because I DONT USE MCAFEE antivirus.
http://download.mcafee.com/us/?cid=10372
I have 2 versions, Virusscan 7.0.0 and 7.1.0
Is this the problem with both?
Riya~ please take a look at this, it is McAfee's product lifecycle and support policy.
http://us.mcafee.com/root/support.asp?id=retail_policy
;)
riya_here, do you possibly have a Grant # with McAfee, giving you access to all of the products included with your grant license?
If so, you can find those patches for your products here:
https://mysupport.nai.com/login.asp - but of course you will need a Grant # to create an account...
Hiya Riya
I am sorry the information I was posting was specific to enterprise version 8.0.0. I apologise. I did not even ask any exploratory questions, just merely assumed, and we all know what assumption is the mother of hey !
Please if you can, You may want to upgrade.
Thanks. :)
I think i better shift back to NAV then to spend so much money on mcafee.
Well only run one interactive virus scanner at a time, I usually run 2 to 3 scanners, but never at the same time. ;) as for the rest of your suggestions , I have to agree.Quote:
Originally posted here by nihil
1. Only run ONE interactive virus scanner.
2. Only run one software firewall.
3. Disable all startup programs that you do not immediately need. Start things when you need them, then close them when you have finished.
4. Defragment your HDD in safe mode (that defragments the virus signature files.
5. Disable the scan on file closure option.
Check your running processes, particularly automatic updates.
McAfee and Norton are rather resource hogs, however you may have conflicts. The best policy is to run as little as possible at any one time.
Check for program updates. AV and operating system.
:)
EDIT: And if you disable your AV, you might as well not have it?
I have to agree that McAfee is a resource hog, and Norton isn't much better (if using the stand-alone NAV), but I personally prefer using Norton SystemWorks with the AV built in (or included). I used to swear by McAfee until they ported their scanner/cleaner to Windoze (I was using the DOS versions of their programs back in the early 90's). Now, to be honest, I wouldn't use OR recommend their product. I feel since the porting, they are catching less viruses than they did before and sometimes it seems that they are just getting worse.
Believe me, Memory sticks are a BIG help in speeding up your system. Another option you could consider - depending on how many HDD's you have (or partitions, to be more accurate) is to have your swapfile split between your boot drive and one of your partitions that you use very little. I have discovered that in using all 5 of my partitions and allocating about 374 megs of HDD space for the swap file tends to help speed things up (at least for me). You can do this in the "system properties/advanced/performance/advanced/virtual memory for paging file" section of System in control panel.Quote:
Originally posted here by Relyt
Good Day,
In addtion to Nihil's suggestions you might consider investing in some more memory sticks. With reducing the number of processes running and increasing the memory, you should most definitely witness an significant change.
cheers
Quote:
Originally posted here by riya_here
Thanks. :)
I think i better shift back to NAV then to spend so much money on mcafee.
As I said above, I really do prefer Norton's products. But I admit that if F-Prot made a free windows version of their AV prog, or Thunderbyte Anti-Virus ever came back, I'd probably switch to them as long as they were as good as they were back in the 90's.
EDIT Well, I'll get this text formatting down sooner or later.
Blessings
Carenath
AFAIK they were absorbed into Norman Data Defense Systems, a Norwegian outfit, back in the late 90's. You can still get that product..............it has "sandbox technology".Quote:
or Thunderbyte Anti-Virus ever came back
/off topic funny story
It was the first week in January 2000 and I received a call from my local publican (bar owner) saying that his young daughter's PC was doing funny things.
I went round his place and found this tower machine (Fujitsu Siemens or maybe Siemens Nixdorf) running Windows 95B build 1212.
It was doing funny things alright.................the display had shrunk to a quarter size in the top left corner for a start.
If you left it for a while, Thunderbyte kicked in with a background scan, and that was the problem..................it was about 4 years old, and had be set to "clean files, if you can't then delete them".
Obviously, the Win 95 Year 2000 patch had not been applied, and recently updated files had very weird dates on them.
Thunderbyte was "seeing" these dates and assuming it was a virus infection. As it could not clean the nonexistent virus, it merrily deleted the file.
I guess that was the only "Year 2000 bug" I ever encountered.
:D
Check the On-Access scan log to see if there are any scanner timeouts. Frequently I see high CPU utilization due to McAfee choking on some file(s) it is trying to scan. If it is an application you frequently use, then set an exclusion not to scan that file/folder.
thats a nice idea.
thanks, mkofron
Hi Riya
Well why not use a free antivirus like AVG or Avast.
These take up less resources and are economical too.
Moreover their protection is no way less than that of Mcafee or Norton. I personally am using AVG and i recommend that.
Your firm saves money on buying antiviruses ........... They happy !
You save money on buying antiviruses ........ You happy !
Giving an idea of a free antivirus that works to your boss .......... Who knows you get a raise !
Well there has been a lot of debate on this topic here too. Just follow the link
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...9&pagenumber=1
Hope it helps