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Current AV software bloatware is a scourge on the world. I spent about 30 minutes this weekend helping my sister-in-law debug a slow internet. My observations
by fatnoah 5y ago
Current AV software bloatware is a scourge on the world.
I spent about 30 minutes this weekend helping my sister-in-law debug a slow internet. My observations were that attempting to do anything resulted in about a 5-10 second pause, and general sluggish response when trying to anything online. I disabled anti-virus, etc. and it was still slow. I tried Edge and everything was super-fast.
Digging further, the issue was McAfee Safe Search (powered by Yahoo). It was singlehandedly adding 5-10 second lag on every mouse click and character typed in the browser. Disabling and blocking that resolved everything.
- null_deref 5y agoHow can a software this bad hit production? I had a good laugh
- neurostimulant 5y agoThe developers probably test it using beefy machines and very small latency to their dedicated test servers in the same building. On the other hand, their users probably use old or slow machines connected to busy oversubscribed servers halfway across the world causing significant latency.
- fatnoah 5y agoIt was brutal. I first suspected terrible Wi-Fi, or underpowered computer, but everything worked great in Edge and the computer is a 3.2GHz i7 w/12GB RAM. I think my favorite part of it is that the issue itself of blocking everything for network calls is like one of the first things I learned about Windows programming in the early 2000's.