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McAfee / Windows 10

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McAfee / Windows 10

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Postby monabri » October 4th, 2021, 11:32 pm

Over the weekend, my windows 10 ( W10) computer had a wobble and needed a full reinstall of W10. I have not re-loaded
McAffee antivirus. The difference in responsiveness is marked....Chrome downloads webpages much quicker and the laptop seems much snappier.

I understand W10 has built in anti-virus...can I drop the McAffee anti-virus? Is W10 antivirus sufficient?

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Re: McAfee / Windows 10

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Postby servodude » October 4th, 2021, 11:44 pm

monabri wrote:I understand W10 has built in anti-virus...can I drop the McAffee anti-virus? Is W10 antivirus sufficient?


I think so and that's how I run all my win 10 machines

I've only had to deal with McAffee once in the past few years
- my daughters school laptop was re-imaged (back to factory fresh but 3 years old version) when its warranty period ended and it was unusable with McAffee installed
- a fresh install of up to date Win10 brought it back to a useable condition

- sd

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Re: McAfee / Windows 10

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Postby kiloran » October 5th, 2021, 10:25 am

I've used McAfee, Norton, Avast in the past, and they all tended to create problems such as slowness. Years ago, a stand-alone antivirus made sense since Windows had no built-in solution. For the past 10 years or maybe more, I've just used Windows built-in solution and had no problems whatsoever. Windows Security is totally unobtrusive, and is frequently updated. It also has a good reputation (for example, see https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/ho ... 18-211416/ )

I do try to avoid dubious websites, and don't open emails which appear to be suspicious. I also take regular backups just in case

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Re: McAfee / Windows 10

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Postby Infrasonic » October 5th, 2021, 10:36 am

I've not used third party AV for years.

There's one W10 desktop I look after for someone who refuses to drop Norton as their AV, and despite having put an SSD in it and drastically cleaning up start up et al- it runs like treacle (CPU bottlenecking). I even showed them the difference with Norton off - still no joy... :roll:


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