McAfee is SUPPOSED to (roughly in historical order of intention)

1) catch viruses already on your system

2) repair the damage if possible

3) catch incoming viruses via download

4) notice various other incoming nasties, such as Word Macro 'viruses', adware, spyware, HTML bugs, nasty cookies, you name it....


It's no wonder that it is becoming less efficient as time goes on...

When I pulled it off my old system a couple of years ago cause it was well past it's update end-time, it pulled out hundreds of registry entries, and the damn P133 ran about twice as fast. I installed AVG at that time, and noticed no slowdown. Sadly, I think it MAY still catch the viral nasties nowadays, but I don't think I would use it anymore.

Robin