Hi,

I am running Windows XP.  Newly installed 80GB hard drive, free space 90%, 512 RAM, CPU usage around 7%, processes 33, Processor 1.1 GHZ. Service
Pack 2 is installed. There is no other spyware, firewall, virus, software installed
on my computer but AOL Security Center Powered by Mcafee

Everytime I run this sofware it freezes the computer. It might run for 10
minutes, 15 minutes, and  eventually it freezes. If I run a free virus scan software off the internet (Trend Micro) it freezes my computer. My computer freezes only when the virus scan is running.  If I run Excel or Word it does find. The computer boots up find. I doubt it's a virus because I had this problem
before my harddrive was replaced. I was able to run an online virus scan
at that TIME and it found nothing. The only reason the hard drive was replaced
was because the techician assured me it would fix the problem.

I think it has something to do with the AOL Security Center that I downloaded.
I CALLED them and they give you the same answers.  Must be a virus or do
you have any other spyware programs, or do you have Norton's installed
on your computer.

What would cause this problem. I been browsing the interent for solutions
and it APPEARS to me that people aren't too happy with Mcafee.  Are there
any test I can run.  I LOOKED at the events and I did SEE some errors such
as Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC could not be found and
Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC.  Researching
this I found this having to do with SQL and I didn't think this had anything
to do with my problem.

Anyway. what can I be looking at or what can I do on my end to sucessfully
run the virus can.  Any recommendations?

Thanks