Follow up -- Uninstall McAfee. It's intrusive bloatware that, per reports
here, interferes with a lot of things. AVG and Spysweeper will do the same
functions, but a lot better, a lot less intrusively, and much more
efficiently.
"aewdw" <aewdw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8095CF67-D4C1-4997-8306-8B310836C2A7@microsoft.com...
> Thank you, I just went to find it and can not locate it in the unistall
> part.
> I also couldn't see where on it's page to turn it off. Do you know where I
> can find it?
> I also have McAfee security center but that doesn't seem to work well. I
> think I bought it through Dell when I bought the computer and I have it
> for 3
> yrs. Someone else set everything up for me and I just don't feel like
> paying
> them again to come out and fix this stuff.
>
> "PTravel" wrote:
>
>>
>> "aewdw" <aewdw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CE597D90-5A6B-44BD-946A-1C560B558599@microsoft.com...
>> > My new computer came with Windows vista and it is running Windows
>> > defender.
>> > When ever it comes on (defender) it makes everything run very slow and
>> > it
>> > also runs forever. The scan started last night at 09:18pm and it is
>> > still
>> > running now at 05:04pm. So it has been going for almost 20 hours. This
>> > is
>> > not
>> > normal is it? What can I do to fix it. I really am not computer
>> > literate.
>> > TIA
>>
>> Disable it. Replace it with Grisoft's AVG (free antivirus software) and
>> something like Webroot's Spysweeper (not free, but good antimalware
>> software). Defender is neither effective nor efficient.
>>
>>