Why uninstall McAFee

I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to delete it.
McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now and I have no
trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to delete it?

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"George Frank" <gfrank26@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to delete
>it. McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now and I have no
>trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to delete it?
>
> --
> gfrank26@comcast.net


For the reasons in the the posts where they were having problems. If it's
working fine on your computer then that's great. It doesn't work on many
computers. Personally I think there are much better security solutions than
McAfee but this is just my opinion. Other's such as your self may have other
opinions.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

I personally must agree with Kerry on those thoughts about MacAfee...As
security goes you could do much better but if you really desire a resource
hog than MacAfee is the right product for you....Tell you what if you do not
believe this try uninstalling MacAfee and download Grisoft's AVG free (for
antivirus) and use the built in Vista firewall for a week and see how much
quicker your system is....I used to be a diehard Norton fan (Symantec) until
I found out just how much resources it used...Wife had MacAfee on hers and
the two machines were terrible...Now they both are smokin fast.....Just my 3
cents
"George Frank" <gfrank26@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to delete
>it. McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now and I have no
>trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to delete it?
>
> --
> gfrank26@comcast.net

"George Frank" <gfrank26@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%23osIXBRhHHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to delete
>it. McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now and I have no
>trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to delete it?

cos it's crap...??
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Scotty©

George Frank wrote:

> I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to delete
> it. McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now and I have no
> trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to delete it?
>
Hmmm, because it is bloatware that although not as bad as Vista, is trying
to earn a similar reputation.

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Kerry Brown wrote:
> "George Frank" <gfrank26@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:%23osIXBRhHHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to
>> delete it. McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now
>> and I have no trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to
>> delete it?
>>
>> --
>> gfrank26@comcast.net
>
>
> For the reasons in the the posts where they were having problems. If
> it's working fine on your computer then that's great. It doesn't work on
> many computers. Personally I think there are much better security
> solutions than McAfee but this is just my opinion. Other's such as your
> self may have other opinions.
>
Mcafee does tend to be a bit of a resource hog, (that is, it slows your
computer down) however if you don't play games or do anything really
taxing with your PC, you might as well leave it if your happy with it


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Hi, PC newbie here and I do not like my McAfee free trail. I have Windows XP
Professional/Office 2003...whatever that means. I want to get rid of McAfee
and use something else. Now I discover this Microsoft Defender? What I am
hearing is I need the Defender and an Anti-Virus (like McAfee?). Can someone
explain this to me and help me find a good AV and I am hearing that the
download for the Defender is troublesome???? The Defender does what? And AV
is different than Spyware and Spamkiller? I'm soooooooo lost.... Thx!

"Drew" wrote:

> I personally must agree with Kerry on those thoughts about MacAfee...As
> security goes you could do much better but if you really desire a resource
> hog than MacAfee is the right product for you....Tell you what if you do not
> believe this try uninstalling MacAfee and download Grisoft's AVG free (for
> antivirus) and use the built in Vista firewall for a week and see how much
> quicker your system is....I used to be a diehard Norton fan (Symantec) until
> I found out just how much resources it used...Wife had MacAfee on hers and
> the two machines were terrible...Now they both are smokin fast.....Just my 3
> cents
> "George Frank" <gfrank26@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:%23osIXBRhHHA.5008@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to delete
> >it. McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now and I have no
> >trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to delete it?
> >
> > --
> > gfrank26@comcast.net
>

I just got a new computer from Dell 2-3 months ago. Everything was fine
until just last week...now I am having all the "message cannot be displayed"
problems and I've been reading all the posts about WM incompatibility with
McAfee. It is incredibly frustrating - I hope the same doesn't happen to
dell. I am so angry that Dell would not flag this knowing that I was
purchasing Vista!

"George Frank" wrote:

> I see many posts about McAFee not working well with Vista, and to delete it.
> McAFee came with my new Dell, I've had about a month now and I have no
> trouble whatsoever with it. Why would anyone want to delete it?
>
> --
> gfrank26@comcast.net
>
>