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Uninstall that crap.

Use Avast.

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Get Kaspersky. Its lightweight and wont kill your system. Also they have great recovery tools in case of a bad infections and decent customer support.

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I'd take a Virus before McAffee any day =P

 

Probably the worst thing you can do to your PC.

 

BitDefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, AVG,...

 

Plenty of payed / free options that are far off McAffee ^^

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Wtf is going on? why is it using all my ram? I paid for a premium subscription and its just annoying my computer someones freezes.

 

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Get rid of that and get Avast.

 

I'd take a Virus before McAffee any day =P

 

Probably the worst thing you can do to your PC.

 

BitDefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, AVG,...

 

Plenty of payed / free options that are far off McAffee ^^

Avast is more reliable than any of the above mentioned, it's free and it takes the least resources. AVG for one sucks way too much juice out of a system after a few months there is no way I can recommend it to anyone.

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Yes but I like the custom scanning when you can use your cpu fully to scan quickly 

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Get Kaspersky. Its lightweight and wont kill your system. Also they have great recovery tools in case of a bad infections and decent customer support.

 

 

I'd take a Virus before McAffee any day =P

 

Probably the worst thing you can do to your PC.

 

BitDefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, AVG,...

 

Plenty of payed / free options that are far off McAffee ^^

 

 

Get rid of that and get Avast.

 

Avast is more reliable than any of the above mentioned, it's free and it takes the least resources. AVG for one sucks way too much juice out of a system after a few months there is no way I can recommend it to anyone.

Yes but I like the custom scanning when you can use your cpu fully to scan quickly 

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Yes but I like the custom scanning when you can use your cpu fully to scan quickly 

Most antivirus software has this feature now (even Microsoft Security Essentials) you just have to find what option its listed under.

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The problem with McAfee is it takes a lot of setting up, configuring, trial-and-error to get it to the point of it not being a pain in the arse, whereas others like Kaspersky tend to just work straight away. 

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I get you guys don't like McAffee, but telling him to uninstall it and get something else isn't going to help solve his problem. He has McAffe and he want's to know why it's using a large amount of Ram and how he can fix it. Not alternatives to what he has or wanting to hear how it sucks.

 

It could be a possible memory leak, or if it is doing a scan it might be saving things to the ram for some reason for faster read speeds. Unless you are starting to see the computer slow down a lot because of it I wouldn't worry.

If you are seeing it slow down it could be a setting that is causing it where the Scan has full priority to use system resources and not a background task. If that's not a setting in the program you might want to contact support and see what they have to say.

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McAffe is standard on most Alienware laptops... See any link? ;)

But to the point: It could be that McAfee is scanning the computer and therefore using a lot of RAM or it can be infected or corrupt... I would just uninstall it and then install it again...

Or get something like Avast or Norton... Works for me ;)

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I would try reinstalling it: https://community.mcafee.com/message/198227#198227

and doing an online scan if it doesn't work: https://community.mcafee.com/message/123902#123902

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I get you guys don't like McAffee, but telling him to uninstall it and get something else isn't going to help solve his problem. He has McAffe and he want's to know why it's using a large amount of Ram and how he can fix it. Not alternatives to what he has or wanting to hear how it sucks.

 

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I would try reinstalling it: https://community.mcafee.com/message/198227#198227

and doing an online scan if it doesn't work: https://community.mcafee.com/message/123902#123902

 

This.

 

Probably have a memory leak/infection which the above should fix.

 

FWIW, I would suggest an A/V other than Mcaffe but, whatever you choose is all personal preference.

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Thats about right, it needs about 32GB to tick over! Try Microsoft Security Essentials. The only reason people think McAfee is cool is it's recommended by nearly every manufacturer who gets paid for ever purchase thats made through their computers!

McAfee = Rubbish!

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People still use active anti-virus?

 

Grab something like malwarebytes and just manually scan objects, those active scanners

half the time get false positives and auto delete things. Besides a manual scanner uses

no resources at all. 

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Off topic:

 

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On Topic:

 

I would try re-installing it.

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