Thinking of dropping McaFee and having AVG

Ladywriter1968

I currently have McAfee and pay £3.00pm for the updates of this, Problem is, my machine runs really slow and I wonder if its that package that is causing this?

Would I be better off dropping McAfee and going with AVG?

Cause my husband with AVG and his PC runs faster then mine.

Plus every single day about 2 or 3 times its updating, and when it does this I cant use my PC at all cause everything just freezes up on it.

Then it says you are not protected and it takes like ages again and I keep clicking it and nothing and then all of a sudden it will start to work again. Earlier I felt like throwing the pc away cause it was so bad. I got to do nothing on it in the end.

It will say its protected and then 10min later will come up saying unprotected again when its just downloaded.

It also takes ages to load up when I turn it on as well. And takes ages to shut down.

Advice anyone?

closed

Try avast free rather than avg, and use the mcafee removal tool http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507

How much ram have you got, which operating system, and what is your commit charge in task manager, performance.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

luci

I would second Avast. Free programme and it updates regularly.

DaveG247

Me too, I changed from avg to avast highly recommend

babyblooz

I have McAfee on my new netbook and it runs really sloooowwwwwly so I think I will take it off and go with Avast. I've heard its tricky to get rid of so are there any tips I should follow?

aliEnRIK

babyblooz wrote: »

I have McAfee on my new netbook and it runs really sloooowwwwwly so I think I will take it off and go with Avast. I've heard its tricky to get rid of so are there any tips I should follow?

use the removal tool in post #2

Ladywriter1968

babyblooz wrote: »

I have McAfee on my new netbook and it runs really sloooowwwwwly so I think I will take it off and go with Avast. I've heard its tricky to get rid of so are there any tips I should follow?

I know exactly how you feel. I mean my PC runs really slow and Mcafee keeps updating all the time and then it says it not protected and I have to go thru all the thing again. I pay a subscription to it but am thinking of dropping it now and going with one of the programs mentioned by others on this site.

I am sick to death of my PC running really slow all the time.

Ladywriter1968

closed wrote: »

Try avast free rather than avg, and use the mcafee removal tool http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507

How much ram have you got, which operating system, and what is your commit charge in task manager, performance.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

Commit Charge Peak 1233688 Limit 1257816 Total part keep changing, Operating System windows XP

Processes 53
Physical memory Total 261616
Kernal Memory 41940

spakkker

Get rid of mcafee and try avast or avira.
Looks like you only have 256mb ram which is too little.

closed

See the second link in post 2, you have about 30 too many processes running, and are using 5 times as much ram as you have installed, the solution apart from replacing mcafee with avast is to trim your startup apps, or reinstall XP, alternatively you can buy more ram, but still needs to address the bloat, so do that first.

Trinitrotoluene

As has been suggested go with Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials. AVG is a waste of space.