I had so much confidence in McAfee that the thought returning it didnt even cross my mind, hence my receipt got misplaced. I'm at a loss.I no longer have my reciept so I can't return it.

exe's and installed a few things and at the end of the chat, he told me to restart and try a scan.of course after the restart the chat was terminated.and the result was, my scan is still painfully my estimates, it will take McAfee 2 days to scan my modest 320 Gb drive. Although I appreciate their customer support efforts, the problem is still not resolved. I spent hours on forums today and and about 30 min with the McAfee online chat support. I am having this exact same issue with windows 7 64bit and McAfee Total Protection 2010.

McAfee was scanning every file in the 'Application Data' folders over and over and over and taking longer and longer to do it each time. It appears to me that those redundant folders are just pointing back at themselves, and cascade downhill for several iterations (I've opened them as deep as fifteen times!) Every time I step further down, CPU load goes up, and everything slows down. I haven't seen any change in the way any of my applications work, and none of the redundant folders have reappeared. Go back to the 'C:' drive, and open the 'Documents and Settings' folder, and go through the same process.ĭO NOT delete the first 'Application Data' folder you come to only delete the 'Application Data' folders that are contained in an 'Application Data' folder.Įmpty the Recycle Bin before you start a scan.Īfter I did this, I completed a full scan in an hour and 11 minutes.

If it contains a folder with the same name, delete that redundant folder.ĭo the same thing in any 'Local Settings' folder under any of the 'Users' folders. Open Windows Explorer and expand the 'C:' drive.Ĭheck each subfolder for a folder named 'Application Data'. I strongly suggest you make a full system backup before you try it, just in case it causes problems on your machine. IMPORTANT!! This worked for me but I can't guarantee it will work for you.

Here's how I fixed this problem on my computer (Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S, 8GB RAM, 1TB HD, Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit):

Bitdefender full scan took 20 hours