Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:52:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] AVG Free Issues
--- Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would concern me more is whether AVG Free can catch enough viruses.
> I have the impression that it performs a bit less in this respect than
> McAfee, but McAfee really slows down Windows on the Lib110.
Heh... As I've written, my solution to AV software slowing down these
Libbies has been just not to install it at all. I've been running
underpowered systems on the net sinnce '94-'95 and have only gotten hit a
few times in all that time. And until recently, those times were >always<
when I neglected to run an AV scan on a file before I executed it. Only
recently after installing W2K did I run into a virus that I got by merely
>visiting< a website. And that could have been avoided if I had run
Windows Update beforehand.
The trick for me is just to run AV on any susceptible file before I run it.
That and always watching for outgoing data transfers online when I've got
nothing running that should be causing it. And on quirky OS behaviour,
immediately runing something like TaskInfo2000 and looking for processes
that are running that aren't anything I know is usual to see running.
Having AV software running and checking on everything on an ongoing basic
on thse old under-powered systems just slows things up way too much for my
comfort. But I do always have it installed to run manually when I think a
file may be suspicious
Matt
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