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[Mr Skrunts]

Had a ;ook at someones laptop today, first time I have ever had a play with windows vista OS (think it was the 32bit version), dunno the the sped of the PC but sussed it had 768mb ram and was running like a 386 taking ages to boot.

Turned off the daily scans in AVG and windows defender, this speed the lappy up no end.  Personallyi dont understand the daily scan thing as files are scanned on DVD drives and when on the net, so now set for a weekly scan on one prog and had a monthly oprion on the other.  (Up to them if they wanna change it back)

Lappy was powered by an AMD CPU, not that impressed performance wise.

Nice looking lappy though even it was an Acer.

[TheBoy]

Had a ;ook at someones laptop today, first time I have ever had a play with windows vista OS (think it was the 32bit version), dunno the the sped of the PC but sussed it had 768mb ram and was running like a 386 taking ages to boot.

Turned off the daily scans in AVG and windows defender, this speed the lappy up no end.  Personallyi dont understand the daily scan thing as files are scanned on DVD drives and when on the net, so now set for a weekly scan on one prog and had a monthly oprion on the other.  (Up to them if they wanna change it back)

Lappy was powered by an AMD CPU, not that impressed performance wise.

Nice looking lappy though even it was an Acer.

Acer suck. End of.

768Mb not enough for Vista. Bet the video card has a chunk as well.


Scans are important - AV on access scans depend on the sig/dat files having the definition in. It won't if undiscovered (or not in dat). Additionally, sometimes people disable AV to install s/w.  Hence scans to mop up those that can bypass.

[Mr Skrunts]

Acer suck. End of.

768Mb not enough for Vista. Bet the video card has a chunk as well.


Scans are important - AV on access scans depend on the sig/dat files having the definition in. It won't if undiscovered (or not in dat). Additionally, sometimes people disable AV to install s/w.  Hence scans to mop up those that can bypass.

Never liked Acer, but as mentioned it does look nice, sadly it 's performance is shite.

768mb, first thing I thought was shared graphics.

Scans are important, I totally agree, but for now they are weekly on that Lappy (as it aint mine)

I allways do a scan after a system install and generally keep my software addons till last thing before bed and do a scan when I dont need the PC (overnight)

I will be honest I dont view scanning the PC daily as a critical "Must Do" every day.

Plus the other thing that was eveident, yet annother PC with loads of photo's on it and not one of them backed up.  :-/

[kcl]

avast is quite popular here and often referred as "the best".

Some think F-Secure is the best but it is quite expensive and eating ALOT of resources.

[TheBoy]

Acer suck. End of.

768Mb not enough for Vista. Bet the video card has a chunk as well.


Scans are important - AV on access scans depend on the sig/dat files having the definition in. It won't if undiscovered (or not in dat). Additionally, sometimes people disable AV to install s/w.  Hence scans to mop up those that can bypass.

Never liked Acer, but as mentioned it does look nice, sadly it 's performance is shite.

768mb, first thing I thought was shared graphics.

Scans are important, I totally agree, but for now they are weekly on that Lappy (as it aint mine)

I allways do a scan after a system install and generally keep my software addons till last thing before bed and do a scan when I dont need the PC (overnight)

I will be honest I dont view scanning the PC daily as a critical "Must Do" every day.

Plus the other thing that was eveident, yet annother PC with loads of photo's on it and not one of them backed up.  :-/

I actually use avg on my win7 PCs, set to scan daily.  Apart from the hdd noise, I dont notice its scanning.  But then, I refuse to use AMD shite, with their poor support chipsets...

[Mr Hagon]

switched from avg to avast recently and the difference was remarkable.  AVG is very resource hungry

LOL, you want to try Mcafee Enterprise - makes my works HP nc6400 1.8g core2, 1gb ram, xp pro run like a dog

Haha, just you wait until you try v8.7i on a Win7 client.  Even with Patch 2 the on-access scanner keels over regularly and throws up pop-ups all over the place.  This would be the Patch 2 that *officially* provided support for Win7  .

[TheBoy]

switched from avg to avast recently and the difference was remarkable.  AVG is very resource hungry

LOL, you want to try Mcafee Enterprise - makes my works HP nc6400 1.8g core2, 1gb ram, xp pro run like a dog

Haha, just you wait until you try v8.7i on a Win7 client.  Even with Patch 2 the on-access scanner keels over regularly and throws up pop-ups all over the place.  This would be the Patch 2 that *officially* provided support for Win7  .

Looks like thats the way we are going.  Our initial tests weren't that positive, but the client is tied into the Mcafee suite for managability/cost reasons.  Ho hum.