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Potato-VS- Registered User
Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 1562
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:47 am Post subject: McAfee Errors |
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Ever since I downloaded the second most recent Active Shield/virus scan update Ive been getting a ton of errors from McAfee. Active Shield will randomly freeze my computer and then doenst start up right the next time that I use the computer, I recieve numerous errrors from everything in my system tray, etc when I attempt to shut down and so forth. I dont really understand why this is, Ive scanned the comp for viruses, etc. Tonight Im going to run a full scan disk and defrag (since it takes about 8 hours to do so on my computer even though I only have about 8 gigs of data on the HD). I dont understand why this is, and I especially dont like how its happening more often then not. Anyone know what might be causing all these problems? |
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Stevo Ville Supporter
Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Location: Orange County Guild: TVR Posts: 9514
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kubrick Registered User
Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 459
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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Sigh. Remember when anti-virus programs used to be just that?
Now Mcafee and Norton, etc have to be these big, bloated, "security" suites which fark up your comp more often than not.
Sorry Potato, not sure what the problem is. I suggest reinstalling.
Personally I use f-prot because all it does is anti-virus in a small, non-resource hogging interface.
http://www.f-prot.com/products/ |
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Jfet Zener Server Admin
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:27 pm Post subject: Re: McAfee Errors |
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Potato-VS- wrote: | Ever since I downloaded the second most recent Active Shield/virus scan update Ive been getting a ton of errors from McAfee. Active Shield will randomly freeze my computer and then doenst start up right the next time that I use the computer, I recieve numerous errrors from everything in my system tray, etc when I attempt to shut down and so forth. I dont really understand why this is, Ive scanned the comp for viruses, etc. Tonight Im going to run a full scan disk and defrag (since it takes about 8 hours to do so on my computer even though I only have about 8 gigs of data on the HD). I dont understand why this is, and I especially dont like how its happening more often then not. Anyone know what might be causing all these problems? |
id say uninstall then reinstall something else. ive NEVER liked McAfee. takes forever to scan my inbox when i load up outlook (about 45 seconds....not my fault its only a 1.5gig file). norton has no problem at home with my 2+gig inbox...only like 15 seconds max. if you want norton PM me and ill get you it.
oh yeah, to defrag my whole computer takes about 14 hours.....except i have 2 20GB hd's, a 213gb, a 447gb raid disk, and a 233 one. 90% full too overall. its not the size of the files really, just how many there are. you could have 10,000 300byte files and thats going to take longer than 1,000 3 meg files. |
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Secret Agent Man Registered User
Joined: 21 Oct 2001 Location: In a van down by the river Posts: 739
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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hey i have the same problem.. but i figured out how to fix it on my comp.. dunno if this works on yours.. but do crt+alt+del .... and look for "slass.exe" there should be only 1.... but if you see 2 .. the second should be at the bottem of list... end that one... hopefully it should fix the problem... it works for me.. and my comp works fine... _________________ if you think thats a soldier behind you? think
agian, or my knife will be in your back.
aa, oshiete sensei-san |
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Simpleman Server Admin
Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Location: Ceres,CA GUILD:<eVa> Posts: 3138
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Aahh I had the same problem with it I unistalled all of it and only d/l virus scan and firewall all the other free stuff that they give you totally screws up your comp. this is straight from one of there techs so if you d/l the privacy thing and I forget what the other was(spam stopper or something I do believe) get rid of them and everything should work fine. _________________ <eVa>Simpleman-V$=<RIP> |
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Potato-VS- Registered User
Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 1562
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: |
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Hmm yea I dled and reinstalled the whole thing and it seems that it works now. Though I havent test all of the system fully yet but it appears to be fixed. |
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