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Yes, we use McAfee here at work and it seems to run ok on my HP laptop (Win XP Pro). You do get an initial hit as it insists on doing a full scan of all the local disks which does hammer the machine at first. It may be worth her just starting up and leaving it for a couple of hours (days?). Other than that, Simon may be right in suspecting something else that's doing a lot of disk i/o, that may also cause McAfee to do a lot of work if it involves disk writes.
I'm going to shut up now as this is way of topic for an ALUG post - sorry folks!
Regards,
Keith ____________ The shortest answer is doing. - George Herbert
I wonder if anyone has been able to help the student? As this has now turned into a discussion on AV products I thought I'd throw in my 2 pence worth and that is F-Prot every time for *nix and M$. Not only quality product and email notices but 10 licenses for $50. It's been on my network for 5 years. I have a server check F-Prot for updates every hour and then all local machines check for updates hourly against the local server. Never any performance hit on checking in out traffic but obviously you can tell when a full scan is being performed. Cheers, Nick
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