Rocky67
Pencil Neck Geek
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join:2005-01-13
Orange, CA
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| McAfee SiteAdvisor Malfunction
My system started slowing down and the amount of available RAM had dropped from ~1gb to 250mb. Fired up Process Explorer and discovered ~150 instances of SiteAdvisor running. 
I killed the SiteAdvisor service, stopped the .exe from loading at startup, and re-booted. So far, so good.
Before I uninstall the program, I'd like to know if anyone else has seen similar behavior from SiteAdvisor. I've been running it since before it belonged to McAfee and haven't had a problem with it until now.
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genewitch
join:2007-09-12
Klamath Falls, OR
 ·Charter Pipeline
·Suddenlink
·Cebridge Connections
1 edit | McAfee... oh how i hate it.
yes. i've seen a few instances of stuff like this. McAfee is borderline (if not fully) bloatware. windows firewall + spybot S&D + avast/avg/nod32 = much smaller system footprint.
Oh and... good luck with an automatic uninstall. :-(
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ZZZZZZZ
Premium
join:2001-05-27
PARADISE |  reply to Rocky67
It's not a program but a browser extension and I personally feel Mcafee gets more info out of you that any site it supposedly warns/protects you about!
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SiberLynx
join:2007-09-09
| reply to genewitch
Hi genewitch,
I have to agree with you about McAfee (full suit). Stinger is a helpful thing, though.
The worse Of those suits is Symantec. That one should not be allowed to any computer since 2004. It is very dangerous - a time bomb. It can have a spontaneous breakdown and reduce any system to nothing. So, no auto-install and "good luck with auto-uninstall" with of it too 
But why I jumped here is mainly because I noticed you've mentioned Windows Firewall. Do you really mean MS FW?
Huge NO! It is like having none. If there is no outbound control - it is not a FW.
Best regards
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