Mcafee slowing down computer?

[Chibs]

I think Mcafee is making my computer run slow, ever since we got it it takes my computer a whole minute to open a folder and it takes 5 minutes for a program like mIRC to open. Anyone got suggestions?

EDIT: I should add that my computer also has a helluva lot of files, not to mention Mcafee got rid of 2 Trojans.

 

[Cue]

Could be worse, you could have that nasty Norton Anti-virus/Internet Security virus that's going round, I hear it's a pain to remove.

 

[Chibs]

Just had the Joke-Bluescreen virus on my computer. Well, at least we got rid of Norton.

 

[sonic260]

McAfee does cause it to run slow when it makes its monthly anti-virus scan, and when it installs updates for itself.

 

[Chibs]

Really? Well that sucks. As for me, right now I'm doing my own scan of the computer by uninstalling all the crap I've accumulated over the past two and a half years.

 

[Scarbo the Black Sheep]

Could be worse, you could have that nasty Norton Anti-virus/Internet Security virus that's going round, I hear it's a pain to remove.

You mean Antivirus 2009? avast! managed to get rid of it rather well simply after doing a Standard Virus search. Then it was able to successfully move to chest after it detected that av2009.exe was malware.