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249 points andreyf | 1 comments | 21 Apr 10 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source

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mrcharles ◴[21 Apr 10 18:22 UTC] No.1282918[source]▶

Just another nail in the coffin of the usefulness of AV systems. And good riddance.

My work computer actually has McAfee on it, which I've disabled through the registry. Don't like how slow it makes my computer.

Education, people! It's better than buying useless feel-good software.

1. watmough ◴[21 Apr 10 18:52 UTC] No.1283010[source]▶

I did some benchmarks on a Dell Precision M65.

The hit from MacAfee was approximately 15-20% by my reckoning, in terms of time taken to run a compile and link cycle.

Worse still, as you pointed out, responsiveness is affected, which can be incredibly frustrating.

McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide