Quoting Laurie Brown <

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I'm pretty sure one or two subscribers to this list work

at/in UEA...

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A friend of mine's daughter has just started there and has been obliged to put McAfee on her (XP Pro) laptop. The problem is, everytime she joins the UEA net, the machine slows to a

crawl. Would

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anyone be so kind as to take a look at it for her please?

Cheers, Laurie.

From: Simon Sent: 31 October 2005 16:59

This is true and also some-what annoying. Windows users *have* to install McAfee anti-virus 8 before they can connect to the network. A friend of mine had to uninstall McAfee 10 - seems silly but I suppose it's a good thing in a way. I have McAfee on my Windows 2000 installation, I haven't noticed that it slows down. The only thing I would put it down to, would be scanning all the files on the disc for virii which would slow the machine down but you can't really stop it doing that.

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