firewall eating up power

i have had a bunch of my clients using ZA, McAfee, Norton, TrendMicro and the firewall is taking up so much of the processing power of the machine that in most cases have had to uninstall to get the machine back.

For the past couple days even my system using free comodo which ive used for over a year was taking up 30% of my computers juice. i uninstalled it and pow machine very responsive. going to try pctools free firewall

so my questions is why the heck are these companies putting out such bad software ???

 

Hmmm!

My Comodo is not doing that!

I don't doubt ZA Mcafee or Norton doing this!

Now if any program gets busy handling issues the CPU cycles will go up. Are you sure it is not fighting something?

Try: http://majorgeeks.com/Autostart_and_Process_Viewer_APV_d5633.html

Leave it running a while click CPU to kick busy programs to the top!

Post its log back to us.

Mike

 

mflynn - ive been very happy with comodo until yesterday when i couldnt take it any longer. even after shutting down spybots teatimer and spysweeper it still was draging down machine. ran malwarebytes with one problems found, ran spybot nothing found ran spysweeper nothing found. as soon as i uninstalled it machine came back. my machine is about 4 years old but its a p4/3.2ghz with 1g ram so its still a decent machine.

will check out that link you gave me but think i will play with pctools free firewall and see what that does.

 

Both my wife and I have new Dell desktops and both of us are using McAfee Security Suite. We've had these for the past month now and I can honestly say that neither of us have experienced any slowdown in processing speeds. I'd tend to agree with mflynn when he asked if your firewall might be fighting something or perhaps there is a conflict somewhere.

 

dont know what its conflicting with other than a new printer nothing has really changed on my system for quite sometime. nothing different in startup within msconfig all the same. i know comodo has always been a good one but cmdagent and one of the other comodo files were just going nuts. now just using xp firewall and all is nice. i dont know i spent literally hours trying to figure it out but couldnt find anything abnormal and nothing that hasnt been there before. like i said only thing different but its been on my system now for 2 months is an hp photosmart printer but thats it. machine is bug free so not sure what the heck was happening.

congrats on the new Dell machines. im a dell reseller they are the best hands down.

 

I suspect these machines are grossly underpowered to start with. Other than Norton, I've not seen a suite or firewall that eats the machine in quite awhile.

I run ZoneAlarm AntiVirus plus Firewall and right this minute if I bring up TaskManager, leaving FireFox V3 running with 4 tabs open, and leaving OutLook 2007 running, and leaving RocketDock running, my CPU Usage percent hovers around 2%.

 

so whats the horsepower in your machine AKAJohnDoe

 

Nothing terribly spectacular, but beefier than the previous PC as is always the case, right?



Another possibility is that there's rogue processes running on the PCs (and perhaps some of those are firewalls). A TASKMGR window would tell.