PC assistance

Sith lard

Knowing there are so every knowledgable people on here, I wonder if you could advise me on an issue my wife is having with her PC.its a Packard bell net book which she uses for email and generally buying stuff of the internet.the problem is it's incredibly slow .she took it into currys the tech guy detected a virus ,anyway despite removing said virus it's wayyyyy too slow .note it has macafee antivirus installed. the net book is less than one year old and has the square root of chuff stored on the hard drive. You help would be greatly appreciated

sungod

mcafee antivirus is an appalling piece of junk, see john mcafee's opinion on his former company's antivirus software and how to uninstall it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg

...if you can get rid of mcafee, put the free avast antivirus on there instead http://www.avast.com/en-gb/index-win

another possibility is...

there's a long running windows bug related to software update, it causes the pc to go really slow, might be the issue, though depends which version you've got

the temporary fix is to either wait a loooooooong time, or, kill the update process, install the very latest version of internet explorer from ms's site, then run windows update

but until ms fixes the root cause, the next time ms update ie, the problem will recur, the pc will again run like a dog until updated once more

manoirdelourde

I installed mcafee once a couple of years back, it dragged my laptop down to being useless, get rid.

Sith lard

Thanks to the pair of you,disinstalled mcafee and installed avast certainly working quicker than it was. Happy days :-)