Re: Crash/slow down and freezes during various virus scans


Hi
Sounds like there might still be some things left over from Mcafee
after the uninstall. Download ccleaner and set it up. Open it and under
the heading on the left is the issus tag. Select this and run it. Should
find any probs you might have. Also would sugest useing AVG its free and
does a great job.Keep me posted.
Barrie





Al Wrote:
> Hey all, I had a problem with mcafee and norton...I had macafee
> installed
> first, then stupidly tried to instal norton as well...the instal failed
> and
> subsequently mcafee virus scans started to freeze on a driver file
> which I
> think was for Norton Symentec. I was advised to restart in safe mode
> and
> delete both, then install either one of those programs or Kaspersky
> Anti-Virus (because it's free and better apparently). Anyway, I
> deleted the
> folders for McAfee because program remover said there was a problem
> uninstalling the program. On the other hand in safe mode Norton
> Internet
> Security 2005 told me to boot up in normal mode and uninstal (I tried
> but no
> uninstal wizard appeared after clicking remove...in fact nothing at
> all
> happened). Norton Internet Security 2005 still appears on the
> add/remove
> program list, but has no file size to speak of.
>
> So anyway, I installed Kapersky and ran the scan but it freezes mid
> scan (on
> no specific file)...however if I challenge the system in any way at all
> (open
> explorer, open msn, start a new text document, create a new folder) in
> begins
> to check files again, I hear a faint sound (maybe the harddrive
> spinning into
> action) then the scanner stops looking through files and freezes again
> (having checked another 10 or 20 files)
>
> Any ideas what my problem is here? I can still run brand new games on
> the
> system, and use every program I have tried.
>
> Thanks for your time (and sorry about all the parentheses ;) )
> Alex
>
> other info:
> Just installed a new motherboard, graphics card and some ram.
> Gigabyte 2004 RZ motherboard
> CPU AMD Athlon XP 2600
> XFX GeForce 6200 graphics card
> 512 RAM
> 80 Gig Maxtor Diamond hard drie
> SP 1


--
barrie
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