McAfee 2009 Range now available

can someone please tell if it works well on vista and what is the impact that it has on the computers RAM and CPU? thanks

 

Yes, its Vista compatible ( has been since 2008 range).
On my system it uses 60 MB of RAM during normal usage.

 

That's optimistic.

On my Windows XP system mcshield.exe has on occasion consumed more than 100 MB RAM.

 

Damn, ya think folks would be happy just to see, McAfee finally looking towards the sky, and not the ground.

 

I clocked it when I had FF3 open only. Nothing else. The scanner component took 40 MB for me.

When I ran a scan, it shot up to 120 MB RAM, but thats for on-demand scan. So unless you where opening many processes or accessing a folder with many executables, the memory usage should be between 60-80 MB for most cases.

 

So McAfee is still bloated?

If so it needs to wakeup to the reality that Symantec saw and start creating a lightweight application...

I use to think McAfee was something, and that was like 8-10 years ago...

 

My McAfee has 15 months subscription

 

Looks like only Mcafee anf F-secure are left in the bloated list now for 2009 versions.

 

It is obvious

 

I have NIS 09 on my comp it uses abt 7-10 MBs under idle conditions
and 50-60 Mbs during on-demand scanning thats quite lighter than Mcafee

 

Norton IS is a very light. Lets say Avg paid which i am using now takes a good deal of 57000k at normal state and i am talking about the Av as i don't know the suite how much ram uses.Bullguard IS is light and Trend Micro 2009 is light as a suite but it causes browsing slow down . Norton doesn't

 

McAfee 2009 reviewed by PcMag.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332734,00.asp

 

For some unknown (to me) reason, AT&T switched their internet security suite from Norton 2009 (which was light & speedy as others have noted) to McAfee 2009, which is sluggish and froze my new computer under two different FDISR snapshots. Removed it ASAP and all is back to normal again. Don't know causes of McAfee's problems on my system, but there are too many easily available alternatives for me to spend any time with it.

Rob