Trend Micro PC-CILLIN Question

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Hi, We just recently decided not to renew our McAfee Anti Virus for our Dimension XPSXXX since it did not catch alot of viruses and switch to Trend Micro's Pc-cillin which we were using the free scan online.  We uninstalled the McAfee and installed the Pc-cillin.   Prior to this we defragged and did a scan disk in safe mode since this seems to be the fastest way. Well now the computer seems to freeze up alot and I mean alot.  I have three teenage girls who are willing at any given moment to chuck the computer out the window. I don't know if I should run adware programs first and then do a virus scan.  The pc-cillin seems to update alot and then on the start of the computer being turned on it's always asking about the firewall not being able to update.  It says that I should go to the website and ask.  I have gone to the website but have had no luck. Any suggestions before it ends up on my front lawn.  Thanks

quicktolearn · Answer

Thanks for the info.  I am glad to hear that it may not be the software.  I'm going to look into seeing if there are any conflicts going on with other software.  Thanks again.

NYFin · Answer

for what it is worth, I have been running PC Cillin on two very similar machines, with no problem.   Using Dell PII 450mhz, 384MB ram, Windows XP Home, - PC -Cillin since Oct 2004.  No Problems, rock solid, never freezes (though the update interuption is annoying).   This was a clean install of XP Home on new 80 GB hard drive and PC Cillin with no other antivirus ever run on that O/S.   Just installed PC _ Cillin yesterday on new machine: Dimension PC with 3 GHZ processor, 512 RAM and Xp Professional - and no probs there either.

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