Saturday, 10 August 2013

Mcshield.exe High Virtual Memory Usage

I'm having the same issue since the last upgrade. Went through the virtual technician, wasted an hour with online chat where everything got uninstalled and reinstalled. I have 2G of RAM, and between last night's install and this morning, it's all of it's component are using over 1.5G of virual memory. And that's without ever doing a scan.

My system hasn't crashed yet. But based on performance since this last upgrade I can expect it to soon get real sluggish and then I'll have to reboot.

On top of that, because of the reinstall I now have that stupid anti-spam toolbar in my Outlook Express. I came here to try to find a way to get rid of it. But all I can find is people complaining that it's now missing. I want to remove it.

Good luck to all of us. I had a feeling buying this product was a mistake, but hoped that after not using it for 4 years they would have fixed some of the issues. Instead I get the same false positives I got then, and still no way to keep it from detecting them, so I have to restore after every scan.

I hope they do something about this memory issue -- I see a few other posts. But based on past performance, they'll deny it for 2 or 3 months, or until it makes it into a major magazine or website because somebody with clout gets clobbered. I would think that that shouldn't take too long, execpt those people are probably using the Enterprise version and already had their own crash.


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mcshield.exe high cpu usage, unusable system after fresh install

I posted an earlier thread a while back regarding security center 2009 and high cpu usage related to a game I have installed:

http://community.mcafee.com/thread/21277

Recently I did a complete fresh re-install of mcafee and when I installed (after using the removal tool) I was upgraded to security center 2010

Unfortunately the problems above have got worse - they are caused by other game executables and the system degredation persists longer than the minute or so it used to to be a permanent problem that is only resolved by hard-resetting the machine.

I have currently uninstalled mcafee (disabling the auto-renewal) and installed a trial of another product.

But I would like to get mcafee working again.

has anyone experienced bizarre high cpu usage by mcshield.exe?

My system is Vista 32bit, all patched.


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My firewall is off and won't turn on

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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McSvHost.exe causes error on Shutdown

I am getting this error also during shutdown. It's an "application error" saying "memory could not be written". I just installed Mcafee a couple days ago, it's the newest version. Doesn't seem like it happens every time, except lately it seems to.

Here's my about info:

securitycenter

Version 10.0

Build 10.0.569

lang en-us

update 2-14-2010

virusscan

version 14

build 14.0.306

update 2-16-2010

dat 5894

dat dt 2-16-2010

personalfirewall

version 11

build 11.0.378

2-14-2010

siteadvisor

ver 3

build 3.0.164

parental controls

v12.0

build 12.0.281

quickclean and shredder

v10.0

10.0.240


My laptop is a Dell e1505, with dell wireless 1390 wlan. Running XP SP3.  Also, not much 3rd party software installed, I stripped it pretty bare.


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McSvHost.exe causes cpu spike, lagging, and buzzing - very annoying

So I just recently started noticing this performance issue first during gaming, but now while listening to itunes are even surfing the internet. I havn't yet seen it while completly idle though.

The computer lags horribly and any audio being played turns into a buzzing noise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNcB1D9seqc

this video gives you an idea of what i'm talking about. check 2:20 ish.

I run a windows 7 64bit

intel i7 2600 processor

8 GB ram

and a radeon 6900 graphics card.

also the computer was bought from Dell: XPS 8300, if that helps

What i did was run windows resource monitor while i was listening to music and surfing the web and managed to find out that it was McSvHost.exe that was causing these spikes; which spiked to 100 percent then back down to normal in roughly a third of a second. I'm guessing cpu usage at 100 percent is probably causing the lagging and buzzing. Not sure if its recomended to delete McSvHost.exe permanently. i'm hoping that an update of somesort will fix it.

I hope that someone can give me a solution. My computer is almost brand new and i can't get full enjoyment out of it.

Thank you.


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McSvHost.exe cripples my PC

I'm running the latest version of Mcafee Security Center. After the January 19, 2010 update, the process  McSvHost.exe (which is actually a McAfee process) randomly fluctuates from up to 50% of my processor time to 0%. Once this happens (usually after a few hours of the PC being booted up), it cannot be stopped unless I temporarily disable my wireless network adapter. Apart from it being annoying, it also has a very real impact on my PC's video rendering capabilities, causing uncontrollable stutter in video playback, gaming and every other graphics-intensive process.

A friend of mine has the same problem, only in his case, the McSvHost.exe process starts taking up 50% of CPU immediately after boot-up. Both PCs run WinXP SP3 Professional, with 3GB Ram and fairly new (less than two years) CPUs and even newer GPUs.

I hope this is resolved ASAP, as I am really disappointed that it's been now almost two weeks this has been happening and I am tempted to switch to another security program, that doesn't actually crash my computer.


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My Real-Time Scanning won't stay on (McAfee Internet Security 2013)

Security Scan Plus isn't an antivirus it's merely a sales gimmick to get people to buy things and is one of those optional extra downloads one has to keep eyes open for when downloading other software, especially Adobe products.

I could have told you to uninstall that if I'd known.

1-855-333-5996 isn't a McAfee number but one of those fly-by-night "Fixit" firms.    Although from their web page they look fairly respectable, but certainly not McAfee.

http://collegemint.com/Mac_email_support.htm

It wasn't McAfee that was trying to rip you off.

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Message was edited by: Ex_Brit on 27/05/13 8:01:14 EDT PM

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