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Susanherna
Former Member
Message 1 of 4

Virus update every day-makes puter slow to snail speed

Lately, Security Center has been installing updates EVERY DAY! They install correctly, but it makes Internet Explorer slow doen to a snail's pace. When it is installing, it takes 5 minutes for a web page to load! It also slows down like this when doing a scan. Any idea about how I can resolve this.

I have XP-Service Pack 3.
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user66
Former Member
Message 2 of 4

RE: Virus update every day-makes puter slow to snail speed

I'm glad someone else mentioned this! I asked Macafee Support about it and they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. I can understand why scanning the whole computer takes up a lot of resources and slows things down, but why should it take so long to 'update' the virus data? I think what happens is that Macafee makes your computer reinstall the entire thing every time they update - instead of just adding the new virus data. That would explain why it takes so long and slows down the computer for a few minutes.
Anyone else got any ideas about this, and why Macafee can't figure out a way to do their almost daily updates a bit more efficiently?
BastiaanR
Former Member
Message 3 of 4

RE: Virus update every day-makes puter slow to snail speed



I cannot explain why your computer slows down as much as it does - I do not see the same happening on my PC. (I'm running Windows XP on an Core 2 Duo 6320 @ 2GHz with 2 GB of memory).

There's an update for VS every day, except weekends. If it actually does an installation (this rarely happens), you will be asked to reboot the PC.

A complete "virus definition" download is about 95 MB, I believe. I can only assume therefor that updates are incremental.
user66
Former Member
Message 4 of 4

RE: Virus update every day-makes puter slow to snail speed

It must be doing a complete download instead of an incremental one on my computer. Mine is also 2GHz but only 504 MB of RAM.
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