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n o s p a m p l e a s e
What is the best but free antivirus solution for a desktop having low
resources?
resources?
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MHTA8869
avg works really goodOn Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:43:55 +0200, "n o s p a m
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Jan Il
n o s p a m p l e a s e said:
Look here, it works well, it's low on resources and it's free
AVG6 Free:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
If you don't have a firewall, look here and try it. It's free and it works.
Zone Alarm - Free
http://tinyurl.com/iwhb
I use both......have for over a year and never had a virus on my system.
Oh yes..it's a good idea to have a good on-demand back up AV as well. I use
F-Prot.
Cheers!
Jan
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Euclid
n o s p a m p l e a s e said:
Look here, it works well, it's low on resources and it's free
AVG6 Free:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
If you don't have a firewall, look here and try it. It's free and it works.
Zone Alarm - Free
http://tinyurl.com/iwhb
I use both......have for over a year and never had a virus on my system.
Oh yes..it's a good idea to have a good on-demand back up AV as well. I use
F-Prot.
Cheers!
Jan
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I used to use ZoneAlarm but the last version caused a lot of unwanted popup
queries (what do you want to do?) which I could never get rid of. It had to
do with Generic Host Process on Windows XP, among other processes. Did they
ever fix that? So I switched to Kerio PF(2.1.5), but am not happy with it
because the rules are too technical & difficult to define.
-E
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William W. Plummer
n o s p a m p l e a s e said:
Look for the free "Security Update CD-ROM" on microsoft.com . It is
actually 2 CDs, the second being eTrust EZ Antivirus. That's a great
program if you have only one machine.
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John Brock
Jan Il said:
This Sunday if all goes well I will be setting up an old Pentium
clunker to give to a non-technical friend of a friend. I had been
thinking of putting Avast! on it, because at least in the short
time I've been reading this newsgroup people seem to have been a
bit down on AVG6. Still, if AVG6 is much lighter than Avast! it
might be more appropriate here. The two things that bothered me
in reading about AVG6 were 1) updates don't seem to be working
right recently, and 2) it detects viruses but doesn't disinfect.
Have I understood these problems properly? What exactly is wrong
with the updates? What exactly can AVG6 do when it finds a virus,
other than tell you it's there? In general, what are the pro &
cons of AVG6 vs Avast! on an old, slow PC?
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Frank le Spikkin
(e-mail address removed) (John Brock) wrote in
Avast uses a lot of memory - here's a comparison I made recently:
[figures reported by Windows Task Manager in Windows XP SP1]
Avast!
Image Name Mem Usage
ashServ.exe 17,096K
aswUpdSv.exe 236K
ashMailSv.exe 1,052K
ashDisp.exe 6,816K
pctspk.exe 2,484K
Total 27,684K
AVG6
Image Name Mem Usage
avgcc32.exe 1,280K
avgserv.exe 140K
Total 1,420K
The two things that bothered me
Manually downloaded updates remained available throughout. AVG6
automatic updates have been working OK for the last week or so.
The AVG6 resident checker only detects, you need to run the
on-demand scanner to disinfect.
Avast uses a lot of memory - here's a comparison I made recently:
[figures reported by Windows Task Manager in Windows XP SP1]
Avast!
Image Name Mem Usage
ashServ.exe 17,096K
aswUpdSv.exe 236K
ashMailSv.exe 1,052K
ashDisp.exe 6,816K
pctspk.exe 2,484K
Total 27,684K
AVG6
Image Name Mem Usage
avgcc32.exe 1,280K
avgserv.exe 140K
Total 1,420K
The two things that bothered me
Manually downloaded updates remained available throughout. AVG6
automatic updates have been working OK for the last week or so.
The AVG6 resident checker only detects, you need to run the
on-demand scanner to disinfect.
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Dave Cohen
The updates seem ok when using the modified url.ini described elsehwhere in
these groups.
It does fix a virus but only after you scan the whole drive, alternative is
just to manually delete since it does identify the errant file. In the event
you should need the deleted file, well, that's a good reason to keep
backups, just don't wait until you need them.
Dave Cohen
these groups.
It does fix a virus but only after you scan the whole drive, alternative is
just to manually delete since it does identify the errant file. In the event
you should need the deleted file, well, that's a good reason to keep
backups, just don't wait until you need them.
Dave Cohen
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n o s p a m p l e a s e
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I didn't follow it. How can I use F-Prot along with AVG to protect the
computer. I shall appreciate receiving your input or please suggest me a
url that illustrates it.
Thanx
Jan Il said:
I didn't follow it. How can I use F-Prot along with AVG to protect the
computer. I shall appreciate receiving your input or please suggest me a
url that illustrates it.
Thanx
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n o s p a m p l e a s e
In
Is it possible to download?
William W. Plummer said:
Is it possible to download?
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Mogweed
There's nothing to fix - it's designed to work like that. Zone Alarm is aEuclid said:
firewall that monitors both inbound and outbound traffic. If it detects an
inbound attack it will pop up an alert box telling you it's stopped an
intruder. If it detects a program or process that is trying to gain access
to the internet, it tells you about it and you then have to decide whether
or not to let it through.
Generic Host Process for Win32 Services is a part of Windows and has
legitimate needs to access the internet, so in that instance you would tell
ZA to let it access the internet and to remember your choice so that it
doesn't have to keep asking you. Lots of other processes and programs will
also ask and if you don't know exactly what you're doing, it's very easy to
make the wrong choice sometimes.
Mogweed.
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wb
the on/ off switch... lol
AVG doesn't catch everything but it helps, then use an offline scanner...
ex. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
take your chances
wb
AVG doesn't catch everything but it helps, then use an offline scanner...
ex. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
take your chances
wb
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William W. Plummer
n o s p a m p l e a s e said:
Check with Microsoft.
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Euclid
There's nothing to fix - it's designed to work like that. Zone Alarm is aEuclid said:
firewall that monitors both inbound and outbound traffic. If it detects an
inbound attack it will pop up an alert box telling you it's stopped an
intruder. If it detects a program or process that is trying to gain access
to the internet, it tells you about it and you then have to decide whether
or not to let it through.
Generic Host Process for Win32 Services is a part of Windows and has
legitimate needs to access the internet, so in that instance you would tell
ZA to let it access the internet and to remember your choice so that it
doesn't have to keep asking you. Lots of other processes and programs will
also ask and if you don't know exactly what you're doing, it's very easy to
make the wrong choice sometimes.
Mogweed.
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Thanks for the info. I decided to reinstall ZoneAlarm, and I prefer it
except for the Generic Host Process popup. I denied that process access,
permanently, and so far haven't noticed anything bad happening. That's not
what you advise, so I must be missing something as a result, but I have no
idea what...
That Generic Host Process thing is not a reasonably query for the average
person, nor even those with some technical savvy. I have absolutely no idea
what it does, nor do 99% of other people. They need to fix that, otherwise
I'm happy with ZoneAlarm again (so far).
I suppose I'll just have to put up with their 15 days of popups (everytime I
restart my computer), asking me if I want to buy ZoneAlarm Pro, but then
hopefully that popup will stop too. They indicated that there was an easy
way to turn that off, in their faqs before I downloaded/selected it, but I
can't find any such option.
-E
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madmax
In
I use Avast on a 233 w/128ram win98se and have had no problems with it.It
scans e-mail as it comes in as opposed to AVG
For firewall I use Sygate -was fairly easy to set up
Also you may want to consider a filter for e-mail and don't forget about
spyware!
-max
n o s p a m p l e a s e said:
I use Avast on a 233 w/128ram win98se and have had no problems with it.It
scans e-mail as it comes in as opposed to AVG
For firewall I use Sygate -was fairly easy to set up
Also you may want to consider a filter for e-mail and don't forget about
spyware!
-max
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Don
If you can't download updates during the day, do it in the late evening. I
do it and always get a download.
To disinfect, place it in a virus vault which AVG offers as an option and
delete it from there.
I have never been infected in 4 years using AVG 6 (free).
D. W.
do it and always get a download.
To disinfect, place it in a virus vault which AVG offers as an option and
delete it from there.
I have never been infected in 4 years using AVG 6 (free).
D. W.
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Dale Simmons
Jan Il said:n o s p a m p l e a s e said:
Look here, it works well, it's low on resources and it's free
AVG6 Free:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
If you don't have a firewall, look here and try it. It's free and it works.
Zone Alarm - Free
http://tinyurl.com/iwhb
I use both......have for over a year and never had a virus on my system.
Oh yes..it's a good idea to have a good on-demand back up AV as well. I use
F-Prot.
Cheers!
Jan
I'd recommend avast!, but that a person preference. Now as for ZoneAlarm...
I'd recommend it to ANYONE... It is an AWESOME program... I run ZoneAlarm
Pro (won free registration for 1 year, but when that year is up, I want a
lifetime reg).... it's very very very very nice and very configurable....
K
kurt wismer
Euclid wrote:
[snip]
the point of the feature perhaps?
nor does zonealarm... nor can it... generic host process is a generic
host for services - many services... not even necessarily just ones
that come with windows...
as stated elsewhere, there's nothing to fix... zone alarm is asking you
if that process should be given access to the internet - it can't make
that decision for you because it doesn't know what that process is
doing and doesn't know if you want that process to do what it's
doing... and there's no way for it to know those things...
[snip]
Thanks for the info. I decided to reinstall ZoneAlarm, and I prefer it
except for the Generic Host Process popup. I denied that process access,
permanently, and so far haven't noticed anything bad happening. That's not
what you advise, so I must be missing something as a result, but I have no
idea what...
the point of the feature perhaps?
nor does zonealarm... nor can it... generic host process is a generic
host for services - many services... not even necessarily just ones
that come with windows...
as stated elsewhere, there's nothing to fix... zone alarm is asking you
if that process should be given access to the internet - it can't make
that decision for you because it doesn't know what that process is
doing and doesn't know if you want that process to do what it's
doing... and there's no way for it to know those things...
J
Jan Il
Euclid said:Look here, it works well, it's low on resources and it's free
AVG6 Free:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
If you don't have a firewall, look here and try it. It's free and it works.
Zone Alarm - Free
http://tinyurl.com/iwhb
I use both......have for over a year and never had a virus on my system.
Oh yes..it's a good idea to have a good on-demand back up AV as well. I use
F-Prot.
Cheers!
Jan
___________________
I used to use ZoneAlarm but the last version caused a lot of unwanted popup
queries (what do you want to do?) which I could never get rid of. It had to
do with Generic Host Process on Windows XP, among other processes. Did they
ever fix that? So I switched to Kerio PF(2.1.5), but am not happy with it
because the rules are too technical & difficult to define.
-E
There is a box on the popups that you can check to have ZA remember the
selection and that you gave it permission to access the Internet, thus,the
next time the program wants to access the Internet it won't ask. If it is a
program that you want/need to have access, then just check the box and it
won't ask about that one again. If you don't, then yeah, it will ask about
it each time.
That's what it does, and that's what it's there for.
Jan
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Jan Il
n o s p a m p l e a s e said:
F-Prot is a backup AV, it does not run 'with' AVG6, or any other active AV.
AVG6 works within windows, and it is an active AV, meaning, it is running
all the time. F-Prot works from DOS, and it only runs when you start it
manually, from DOS.
The I keep it for 3 reasons, basically; 1) since it runs from DOS, it may
detect files that the AV (and AV) may not from within Windows. 2) It may
detect files that the other AV may not (any AV). 3) If for some reason, I am
not able to access my AVG6 because a virus has disabled it, I can run F-Prot
from DOS. That is why it is called a 'backup' AV.
HTH
Jan