I cant agree with you more...
I never use NORTON or PANDA or any such monstrous "suites"
In the end the CPU and disk is working all the time for antispyware,
antivirus, firewall! We should dump everything and install linux if that's
the case! lol
where you don't need a firewall antivirus or antispyware.
I too have searched everywhere for a fast and lite scanner for older
systems...
the thing is that there is no such beast!.. at least anymore!
because all these antivirus products need to be updated and remain "secure"
they are constantly being "upgraded" the result is a slow sluggish system.
I tried doing this with a bunch of legacy PII systems that we would
donated... we needed an antivirus.. but all of them were just to heavy and
bloated for the resident shield to run on.
Try avast and turn everything off.. you might then try to leave on the
single scanner "standard sheild" and see how it performs....
Many claim NOD32 is fast.. but what I saw is that it slows down older
computers more than Avast!
I mentioned clamwin portable version...you just extract it in a folder and
presto! this can run from a disk too.. and it updates but I never really
liked it much!
see here
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable
ALSO you might consider using a WEB BASED scanner..
like
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeuse...ns/activescan/
OR THIS
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
but there are many other such online scanners...
<PSiegmann@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4879d8be-c3e5-4682-937f-f9bdc7d897e5@xxxxxx
Quote:
> "but have in mind.. you only need to get a bad virus once..."
>
> Yes, but all these real time virus scanners can tax the system
> ridiculously high. Especially Norton.
>
> Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. I think it's more sane
> to properly use the computer and not doing risky and stupid stuff with
> it, than to trust that much on bloated virus scanners that slow your
> system down like viri themselves.
>
> Using bloated real time virus scanners is like taking anti-biotics
> every day because you might get sick (imho).
>
> On Jan 3, 6:47 pm, "CBoom" <some...@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Quote:
>> but have in mind.. you only need to get a bad virus once...
>>
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