Topic: McAfee

[lumbilly]

   My anti-virus (or whatever) software that came on my computer expired, so I've got McAfee now....My pooter is moving sooooo slow now. In addition to that, since I moved a few weeks ago, there is no DSL here (no cable either), so I'm on dial-up (temporarily, I hope)  What can I do to make my computer go faster?

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  My anti-virus (or whatever) software that came on my computer expired, so I've got McAfee now....My pooter is moving sooooo slow now. In addition to that, since I moved a few weeks ago, there is no DSL here (no cable either), so I'm on dial-up (temporarily, I hope)  What can I do to make my computer go faster?

Aside from dumping McAfee, not much. I've seen browser accelerators and the like that are supposed to make your dialup go faster, but all these really do is prefetch pages while you're idle. McAfee, however, is a memory hog, even worse than Norton as far as I'm concerned. There are several lightweight antivirus utilities that are much easier on your system resources, some of them even free. On my own machine I run the freeware version of Avast! Antivirus.

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[lumbilly]

Thanks guys. I will check these out. It took a little over 3 hours to install McAfee on here the other day.

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Thanks guys. I will check these out. It took a little over 3 hours to install McAfee on here the other day.

If you have the time (this could be tedious for you to type in)... do a CTRL-ALT-DELETE to bring up Task Manager. Click on the Processes tab and let me know what's on that list and how much memory each process is consuming.

I want to see what might be hiding in the background (r.e., spyware and the like) and using your system resources.

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[lumbilly]

Image name            User name      Mem usage
Siteadv.exe              owner                   8,204K
iexplore.exe             owner                 49,656K
taskmgr.exe             owner                   4,424K
alg.exe                     local service             824K     
Kodak Software Up.. owner                  2,572K
hpqtra08.exe            owner                  2,712K
svchost.exe              system                 1,680K
MpfSrv.exe                system                 5,220K
mcagent.exe              owner                 1,334K
mcusrmgr.exe            system                   964K
mctskshd.exe             system                2,344K
mcsysmon.exe           system                4,972K
Mcshield.exe              system              12,856K
ReditSvc.exe             system                 2,428K
mcpromgr.exe           system                 9,072K
explorer.exe              owner                  7,756K
mcods.exe                 system                 3,352K
MWSOEMON.EXE        owner                     176K
hpcmpmgr.exe           owner                      760K
hpwuSchd.exe           owner                      144K
jusched.exe               owner                        56K
McNASvc.exe              system                  2,796K
hkcmd.exe                 owner                       188K
mcupdmgr.exe           system                 10,668K
mclogsrv.exe              system                   2,640K
HWAPI.exe                 system                   5,344K
mclogcln.exe               owner                       892K
spoolsv.exe                system                   1,520K
svchost.exe              local service             1,560K
svchost.exe           network service          1,472K
svchost.exe               system                  15,508K
svchost.exe          network service           1,544K
svchost.exe                system                   1,716K
lsass.exe                    system                      992K
services.exe                system                  1,536K
winlogon.exe              system                     720K
csrss.exe                     system                 1,564K
smss.exe                     system                      32K
wdfmgr.exe            local service                   52K
System                        system                      28K
System Idle Process    system                     16K


The  CPU  #'s are all on 0, except for a couple...& they keep changing.


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There's a few of those I wasn't familiar with, but they look OK:

siteadv - siteadv.exe - Process Information

  Process File:    siteadv.exe
  Process Name:    SiteAdvisor Browser Plugin
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  Description:    siteadv.exe is a process belonging to Site Advisor which protects your computer against Internet-bound threats from websites by classifying each with a safety rating. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated.
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  Memory Usage:    N/A ( Free Up Memory )
  System Process:    No
  Application:    Yes
  Background Process:    No
  Uses Network:    No
  Uses Internet:    Yes

I can't find anything about ReditSvc.exe. Terminate the process and see what happens.

Your system actually looks pretty good, but as I figured, McAfee and its attendant programs are using up your resources.



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[lumbilly]

woops....that was supposed to be RedirSvc.exe     Should I still terminate it?

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woops....that was supposed to be RedirSvc.exe     Should I still terminate it?

That's more McAfee stuff running, so just leave it be.

Bring up Task Manager again and click on the Performance tab. Can you tell me what your CPU and Page File usage is? Also look under Physical Memory and give me Total, Available and Cache.

Look at the bottom and see what percentage your CPU usage is.

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[lumbilly]

CPU Usage..moving from 2 all the way up to 41 %
Page File Usage....271 MB

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CPU Usage..moving from 2 all the way up to 41 %
Page File Usage....271 MB

Okay. How about the physical memory info?

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[lumbilly]

Total                 260096
Available          117860
System Cache  110588

(the #'s are changing...up & down)

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Total                 260096
Available          117860
System Cache  110588

(the #'s are changing...up & down)

Those aren't bad numbers, either. I'm guessing your machine's a few years old. It looks like the biggest problem is McAfee. It's a memory hog and can bring a system down to a crawl. I had it on mine briefly and dumped it in a hurry.

The next time you're ready to shut down for the evening, try disabling or unloading McAfee and browse a few known safe sites like Yahoo or CNN or whatever and see if your system is any perkier with McAfeee not running.

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[lumbilly]

 :sunny:  Thanks Tat!

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:sunny:  Thanks Tat!

I'll bill you later.  ;)

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