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Is it time to buy a new computer?
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... I'm thinking you are too prone to messing with your system for us to be able to draw any logical conclusions from your experiences. Just a bit too chaotic for that, s. Sadly, but very true about 'chaotic'. :-) |
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Well there you go, Mary. Obviously, your system is just not up to the rather large
drag that some A-V suites will put on it. As Gary stated, avoid McAfee and Norton (Symantec) on that machine. AVG would be a much lighter drag, but it is not too good at detecting the newer trojans. I use another free A-V named AVAST, and am happy with its performance. I have it installed on systems as slow as PII and AMD 333MHz, with no problems. You might want to give it a try (www.avast.com). I have also gotten good reports about an A-V app named Anti-Vir. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Mary" wrote in message oups.com... I followed Glen's suggestion and disabled McAfee (and stayed offline!) and ran Word, Excel and some other programs. Lo and behold my computer ran MUCH better - faster and with no hesitation. Mr. Martel was right - with McAfee running, it's like driving a car with both feet on the brake. Seems like the people at McAfee would be sensitive to the speed issue. I think when my McAfee subscription runs out, I will check out alternate AV software. Although all AV software is going to result in computer slowdown, yes? And yes, Gary, I did do a clean boot and followed the instructions at auhma.org site (lots of info there). I've learned alot of stuff from all of you - thanks. |
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Is it time to buy a new computer?
Well there you go, Mary. Obviously, your system is just not up to the rather large
drag that some A-V suites will put on it. As Gary stated, avoid McAfee and Norton (Symantec) on that machine. AVG would be a much lighter drag, but it is not too good at detecting the newer trojans. I use another free A-V named AVAST, and am happy with its performance. I have it installed on systems as slow as PII and AMD 333MHz, with no problems. You might want to give it a try (www.avast.com). I have also gotten good reports about an A-V app named Anti-Vir. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Mary" wrote in message oups.com... I followed Glen's suggestion and disabled McAfee (and stayed offline!) and ran Word, Excel and some other programs. Lo and behold my computer ran MUCH better - faster and with no hesitation. Mr. Martel was right - with McAfee running, it's like driving a car with both feet on the brake. Seems like the people at McAfee would be sensitive to the speed issue. I think when my McAfee subscription runs out, I will check out alternate AV software. Although all AV software is going to result in computer slowdown, yes? And yes, Gary, I did do a clean boot and followed the instructions at auhma.org site (lots of info there). I've learned alot of stuff from all of you - thanks. |
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glee wrote:
Well there you go, Mary. Obviously, your system is just not up to the rather large drag that some A-V suites will put on it. As Gary stated, avoid McAfee and Norton (Symantec) on that machine. AVG would be a much lighter drag, but it is not too good at detecting the newer trojans. I use another free A-V named AVAST, and am happy with its performance. I have it installed on systems as slow as PII and AMD 333MHz, with no problems. You might want to give it a try (www.avast.com). I have also gotten good reports about an A-V app named Anti-Vir. I have used AVAST free (currently v4.6.691) with ZoneAlarm free (currently v6.0.667.000) for three years on a PII Celeron 466MHz with absolutely no conflicts. I have had no problems using Outlook Express, I.E.6 sp1, Avant Browser shell for I.E., and Mozilla suite. Buffalo may have had a conflict with an older version of Avast and ZoneAlarm Pro, but the free versions have never bothered me. There was an issue of upgrades versus clean installs of ZoneAlarm Pro causing problems in the past, but I have always done simple upgrades of the free versions of ZA and AVAST. Dennis |
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Is it time to buy a new computer?
glee wrote:
Well there you go, Mary. Obviously, your system is just not up to the rather large drag that some A-V suites will put on it. As Gary stated, avoid McAfee and Norton (Symantec) on that machine. AVG would be a much lighter drag, but it is not too good at detecting the newer trojans. I use another free A-V named AVAST, and am happy with its performance. I have it installed on systems as slow as PII and AMD 333MHz, with no problems. You might want to give it a try (www.avast.com). I have also gotten good reports about an A-V app named Anti-Vir. I have used AVAST free (currently v4.6.691) with ZoneAlarm free (currently v6.0.667.000) for three years on a PII Celeron 466MHz with absolutely no conflicts. I have had no problems using Outlook Express, I.E.6 sp1, Avant Browser shell for I.E., and Mozilla suite. Buffalo may have had a conflict with an older version of Avast and ZoneAlarm Pro, but the free versions have never bothered me. There was an issue of upgrades versus clean installs of ZoneAlarm Pro causing problems in the past, but I have always done simple upgrades of the free versions of ZA and AVAST. Dennis |
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"Dennis Rekuta" wrote in message .. . [snip] Buffalo may have had a conflict with an older version of Avast and ZoneAlarm Pro, but the free versions have never bothered me. There was an issue of upgrades versus clean installs of ZoneAlarm Pro causing problems in the past, but I have always done simple upgrades of the free versions of ZA and AVAST. Dennis I was using the latest version of Avast and I did do a clean install of ZAPro when the version changed. It may have been due to the fact that I, when I originally tried Avast! free, only uninstalled the anti-virus portion of NSW2003Pro and then installed Avast. It worked fine for aprox two days (this was about a week or so ago). Thanks for your information. |
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Is it time to buy a new computer?
"Dennis Rekuta" wrote in message .. . [snip] Buffalo may have had a conflict with an older version of Avast and ZoneAlarm Pro, but the free versions have never bothered me. There was an issue of upgrades versus clean installs of ZoneAlarm Pro causing problems in the past, but I have always done simple upgrades of the free versions of ZA and AVAST. Dennis I was using the latest version of Avast and I did do a clean install of ZAPro when the version changed. It may have been due to the fact that I, when I originally tried Avast! free, only uninstalled the anti-virus portion of NSW2003Pro and then installed Avast. It worked fine for aprox two days (this was about a week or so ago). Thanks for your information. |
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Buffalo wrote:
"Dennis Rekuta" wrote in message .. . [snip] Buffalo may have had a conflict with an older version of Avast and ZoneAlarm Pro, but the free versions have never bothered me. There was an issue of upgrades versus clean installs of ZoneAlarm Pro causing problems in the past, but I have always done simple upgrades of the free versions of ZA and AVAST. Dennis I was using the latest version of Avast and I did do a clean install of ZAPro when the version changed. It may have been due to the fact that I, when I originally tried Avast! free, only uninstalled the anti-virus portion of NSW2003Pro and then installed Avast. It worked fine for aprox two days (this was about a week or so ago). Thanks for your information. I was using NSW2001 (not PRO) for Win98 SE and uninstalled only the NAV as well. Maybe the difference in versions makes the difference in results. You might have had better results with a complete uninstall of NSW, install of Avast, and then a clean install of NSW without the NAV. Then again, maybe not. Avast had a lower footprint on my resources and has separately configurable components for Outlook/Exchange, IM and P2P as well as the regular Web, Resident, and other E-mail programs. If I was given the budget, I would probably go with the pro version, or possibly NOD32. Dennis |
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Is it time to buy a new computer?
Buffalo wrote:
"Dennis Rekuta" wrote in message .. . [snip] Buffalo may have had a conflict with an older version of Avast and ZoneAlarm Pro, but the free versions have never bothered me. There was an issue of upgrades versus clean installs of ZoneAlarm Pro causing problems in the past, but I have always done simple upgrades of the free versions of ZA and AVAST. Dennis I was using the latest version of Avast and I did do a clean install of ZAPro when the version changed. It may have been due to the fact that I, when I originally tried Avast! free, only uninstalled the anti-virus portion of NSW2003Pro and then installed Avast. It worked fine for aprox two days (this was about a week or so ago). Thanks for your information. I was using NSW2001 (not PRO) for Win98 SE and uninstalled only the NAV as well. Maybe the difference in versions makes the difference in results. You might have had better results with a complete uninstall of NSW, install of Avast, and then a clean install of NSW without the NAV. Then again, maybe not. Avast had a lower footprint on my resources and has separately configurable components for Outlook/Exchange, IM and P2P as well as the regular Web, Resident, and other E-mail programs. If I was given the budget, I would probably go with the pro version, or possibly NOD32. Dennis |
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This slowdown is less of an issue in a more recent, faster, more RAM, PC.
McAfee is probably the worst in the slowdowns as far as AV packages. NAV is a strong 2nd. The more recent versions do more, and has consequential overhead. They look for more than viruses. Some up to date AV versions, will not perform all their capabilities in 98, requires XP for that. If you're running a slower PC, its probably best to go with lighter weight AV, a firewall, and some careful web browsing, careful attachment opening habits. "Mary" wrote in message oups.com... I followed Glen's suggestion and disabled McAfee (and stayed offline!) and ran Word, Excel and some other programs. Lo and behold my computer ran MUCH better - faster and with no hesitation. Mr. Martel was right - with McAfee running, it's like driving a car with both feet on the brake. Seems like the people at McAfee would be sensitive to the speed issue. I think when my McAfee subscription runs out, I will check out alternate AV software. Although all AV software is going to result in computer slowdown, yes? And yes, Gary, I did do a clean boot and followed the instructions at auhma.org site (lots of info there). I've learned alot of stuff from all of you - thanks. |
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