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Former Member
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My computer has 368 MB of RAM
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Chuck --
Do you run any kind of spyware removal program regularly? If not, several are mentioned in the. I run many Spyware removal programs frequently and they are always up to date when run. |
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Former Member
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it does sound like some of the 'continuous' anti-virus stuff i saw before. i think it's ok to turn off the 24 hr/day part of it. or as said above, switch to AVG or AVASTI. I have searched the old threads on how to deal with mcaffee. The threads do not give directions on how to do what they suggest. My mcaffee is from AOL, so it might be a little different. |
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Former Member
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OPEN THE TASK MANAGER AND STOP THE PROCESS NAMED 'MCSHIELD.EXE'.
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My computer has 368 MB of RAM That might be a little tight if running Win XP. Perhaps you are also using motherboard graphics, which takes part of the system memory. A separate graphics card would restore that. Most current ones are either AGP or PCI-Express, depending on the motherboard.
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----------------------------------------Work+GPU i7 8700 12threads School i7 4770 8threads Default+GPU Ryzen 7 3700X 16threads Ryzen 7 3800X 16 threads Ryzen 9 3900X 24threads Home i7 3540M 4threads50% [Edit 1 times, last edit by retsof at Feb 13, 2006 2:17:20 AM] |
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Former Member
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retsof i saw the exact problem before with AOL users and McAfee Antivirus.
----------------------------------------if the continuous "on-access" virus-scanning done by the McAfee process called 'mcshield.exe' is not stopped, the process will jump up to 27%+ CPU usage while WCG is running, and everything will slow down very noticeably. either he can just let McAfee scan for viruses every 24 hours instead of constantly on access, or he can change antivirus programs. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 13, 2006 10:09:43 AM] |
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retsof
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I was just trying to come up with some other ideas.
----------------------------------------I know what you are saying about the continuous McAfee scan. I had it on a Pentium IV/2.8 at work. It turned it into a Pentium IV/1.4.  If the continuous scanning is turned off, a mechanism for scanning incoming e-mail should probably remain.
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Work+GPU i7 8700 12threads School i7 4770 8threads Default+GPU Ryzen 7 3700X 16threads Ryzen 7 3800X 16 threads Ryzen 9 3900X 24threads Home i7 3540M 4threads50% |
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Former Member
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either he can just let McAfee scan for viruses every 24 hours instead of constantly on access, or he can change antivirus programs. Thank you to everyone who has provided suggestions and help wth my problem. I think that it is a problem with Mcafee. I do not feel comfortable turning off the constant scanning function. Despite being very careful about viruses, there have been several instances when the constant scan has caught an incoming virus. I will continue using Grid as a Screensaver only. At least I know what the problem is now, and perhaps Mcafee and or Grid will come up with a solution in the future. |
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Former Member
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i have advised mcafee email support about the problem as follows:
----------------------------------------Dear Sirs: Do you have someone who fixes your programs, to answer this small problem? We are members of World Community Grid, a distributed computing project with thousands of world-wide users. Here is our site, backed by United Devices and IBM: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ The computers download a small work unit, and whatever CPU energy is not being used for something else goes to work on the problem (up to 100% CPU usage). However, your process called McShield.exe (seems to be 'on-access scanning'?) gets highly activated while our problems are being computed. I just do not see any reason for this because the whole work unit was already downloaded. The net result is that McShield.exe jumps up to 27% CPU usage and everything slows down very noticeably. This discourages people from helping our project! Can you please get back to me about this mystery? As stated above, nothing is being downloaded or uploaded while the work is being done! Thank you. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 16, 2006 4:47:08 AM] |
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