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Avast interfering with steam. Games taking forever to download.

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September 4, 2014 3:51:50 PM

I had some sort of virus for a while that took over my McAfee program and wouldn't allow me to turn scanning on. Having no antivirus protection I acquired some viruses, I assume and yesterday my computer crashed. I restarted it multiple times and I couldn't open up any program without the computer completely freezing and internet explorer opening random websites. I decided to restore my computer to factory settings today and installed the free trial of avast premier. It was working fine until I started to re download my games on steam which were downloading incredibly slow. Avast has its own firewall so I thought I should turn windows firewall off. When I tried to do this it said McAfee was controlling windows firewall. When I tried to delete McAfee nothing would happen. I guess my dell computer came preloaded with McAfee. Could McAfee be interfering with avasts firewall causing the slow download rate on steam? Any help will be greatly appreciated as I have no idea what to do.

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September 4, 2014 4:50:39 PM

Hello,

Antivirus programs almost never mix and match. In 95% of the cases there would be some interference. If I were you I would back up my important files, format my hard drive, install fresh Windows and use AVG Free. Never had any issues for years with AVG Free.
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September 5, 2014 11:14:56 AM

Use the McAfee removal tool to get rid McAfee.

http://service.mcafee.com/faqdocument.aspx?id=TS101331
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September 5, 2014 5:16:54 PM

It worked, thank you, steam still seems to be downloading slowly tho.
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September 8, 2014 5:13:09 AM

Did you try going into the steam settings and change the download loacation? Steam guesses your location based on your IP address. Mine defaulted to Cincinatti, OH although I live in PA. I live much closer to Pittsburgh than Cincinnatti.
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