Best AV for underpowered comp

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I am working on an older computer used mostly to play (offline) games
and do email. It is a Pentium 233 with 96 meg of memory, running
98SE. A friend had it in a shop for some problem, and while it was
there they installed McAFee Security Center and AV. That may be an OK
AV for a modern machine, but on this one, it took more than 2 minutes
to load IE, rather than 15 sec! I tried AVG Free, and it is also
slow, although a bit faster than McAFee.

Any suggestions on a lean, free AV that might work in this situation?
Internet is only done dialup, so there is not as much exposure as a
constant-on connection, but running without ANY AV is probably not a
good idea.

Any ideas (besides "Get a Modern Machine") are greatly appreciated.

Phil
 
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I am working on an older computer used mostly to play (offline) games
and do email. It is a Pentium 233 with 96 meg of memory, running
98SE. A friend had it in a shop for some problem, and while it was
there they installed McAFee Security Center and AV. That may be an OK
AV for a modern machine, but on this one, it took more than 2 minutes
to load IE, rather than 15 sec! I tried AVG Free, and it is also
slow, although a bit faster than McAFee.

Any suggestions on a lean, free AV that might work in this situation?
Internet is only done dialup, so there is not as much exposure as a
constant-on connection, but running without ANY AV is probably not a
good idea.

Any ideas (besides "Get a Modern Machine") are greatly appreciated.

Phil
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You will have to accept the limitations of your machine.
AVG has about the smallest footprint there is.
-Pete
 
I have win nt 4.0 on a 133 pentium packard bell. I am using Sys. Mech. 5.
Some things like opening sys mech takes forever but opening ie doesn't take
as long as yours. But it works, and I think they recommend a minimum of a
233.
mc
 
I am working on an older computer used mostly to play (offline) games
and do email. It is a Pentium 233 with 96 meg of memory, running
98SE. A friend had it in a shop for some problem, and while it was
there they installed McAFee Security Center and AV. That may be an OK
AV for a modern machine, but on this one, it took more than 2 minutes
to load IE, rather than 15 sec! I tried AVG Free, and it is also
slow, although a bit faster than McAFee.

Any suggestions on a lean, free AV that might work in this situation?
Internet is only done dialup, so there is not as much exposure as a
constant-on connection, but running without ANY AV is probably not a
good idea.

Any ideas (besides "Get a Modern Machine") are greatly appreciated.

Phil
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AVG Free gets my vote.

Mich...
 
I am working on an older computer used mostly to play (offline) games
and do email. It is a Pentium 233 with 96 meg of memory, running
98SE. A friend had it in a shop for some problem, and while it was
there they installed McAFee Security Center and AV. That may be an OK
AV for a modern machine, but on this one, it took more than 2 minutes
to load IE, rather than 15 sec! I tried AVG Free, and it is also
slow, although a bit faster than McAFee.

Any suggestions on a lean, free AV that might work in this situation?
Internet is only done dialup, so there is not as much exposure as a
constant-on connection, but running without ANY AV is probably not a
good idea.

Any ideas (besides "Get a Modern Machine") are greatly appreciated.

Phil
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F-Prot for Windows and NOD32 both use very few resources.

Chas.
 
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