Need Av prog for low power pc. Non bloatware suggestions plz.

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Argle Bargle

Hi,
I'm in the market for a new AV prog for a pc with the following specs.
Windows 98 (original, not SE)
Celeron 533
256 mb Ram
6 gig hd.

I 've got Nod32 2.000.6 on another pc but am not 100% happy with it and
don't think I want to buy another licence to run it on my low power pc.
Previous versions of Nod32 used less resources though version 2.000.6 can
hardly be described as bloatware.

I use this pc mostly to catalog my book collection with Readerware.
Readerware uses a lot of resources when my book database is open. I'd
like something I can run with Readerware open. I occasionally have to
research titles on the web and would like something that can intercept
the occasional nasty script or happytime virus I might run into.
I was considering Solo, F-prot or E-trust Ez Antivirus. Do any of these
have a very tiny footprint resource wise?
I don't download a lot on this machine and don't use pop email at all so
I'm not to concerned about those features in an AV scanner.
 
Hi,
I'm in the market for a new AV prog for a pc with the following specs.
Windows 98 (original, not SE)
Celeron 533
256 mb Ram
6 gig hd.

I 've got Nod32 2.000.6 on another pc but am not 100% happy with it
and don't think I want to buy another licence to run it on my low
power pc. Previous versions of Nod32 used less resources though
version 2.000.6 can hardly be described as bloatware.

I use this pc mostly to catalog my book collection with Readerware.
Readerware uses a lot of resources when my book database is open. I'd
like something I can run with Readerware open. I occasionally have to
research titles on the web and would like something that can intercept
the occasional nasty script or happytime virus I might run into.
I was considering Solo, F-prot or E-trust Ez Antivirus. Do any of
these have a very tiny footprint resource wise?
I don't download a lot on this machine and don't use pop email at all
so I'm not to concerned about those features in an AV scanner.
Click to expand...

What, the computer doesn't have memory expansion? You can buy a memory
chip easy to install at www.crucial.com. Online instructions on what to
get and how to install it, based on your computer brand and model. It's a
piece of cake to do.

Duane :)
 
What, the computer doesn't have memory expansion? You can buy a memory
chip easy to install at www.crucial.com. Online instructions on what to
get and how to install it, based on your computer brand and model. It's a
piece of cake to do.

Duane :)
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I know how to install memory.
I upgraded this machine from 64 to 256.
I upgraded the cpu from 400 to 533, the max this motherboard will handle.
This is an old E-machines pc. The memory will only go up to 500mb.
The next time Microcenter has a sale on memory I buy more.
In the meantime I still need an AV prog for this machine.
 
Hi,
I'm in the market for a new AV prog for a pc with the following specs.
Windows 98 (original, not SE)
Celeron 533
256 mb Ram
6 gig hd.

I 've got Nod32 2.000.6 on another pc but am not 100% happy with it and
don't think I want to buy another licence to run it on my low power pc.
Previous versions of Nod32 used less resources though version 2.000.6 can
hardly be described as bloatware.
Click to expand...

[Snip]

Give F-Prot for Windows <http://www.f-prot.com> a try.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34
 
Hi,
I'm in the market for a new AV prog for a pc with the following specs.
Windows 98 (original, not SE)
Celeron 533
256 mb Ram
6 gig hd.

I 've got Nod32 2.000.6 on another pc but am not 100% happy with it and
don't think I want to buy another licence to run it on my low power pc.
Previous versions of Nod32 used less resources though version 2.000.6 can
hardly be described as bloatware.
Click to expand...

[Snip]

Give F-Prot for Windows <http://www.f-prot.com> a try.
Click to expand...
I've downloaded trials for that and:
E-Trust
Sophos
Rav.
Trying to decide which to actually install.
 
Duane Arnold said:
What, the computer doesn't have memory expansion? You can buy a memory
chip easy to install at www.crucial.com. Online instructions on what to
get and how to install it, based on your computer brand and model.
Click to expand...
It's a > piece of cake to do.

Memory has *nothing* to do with resources...

-jen
 
Memory has *nothing* to do with resources...

-jen
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You can knock me down with a feather on this. The usage of a program
running and coexisting with any other program running on the computer
including the O/S is based on the amount of memory that is available for
the programs to run in. The more memory the machine has the more programs
can run and the less paging of memory the O/S must do. The less memory the
O/S has the more memory paging it must do in order for the O/S to keep
programs running, which slows the computer down.

Ways to circumvent the problem:

1) Get more memory for the machine.
2) Run less program on the machine at the same time.
3) Find a program that uses less memory to run.

When the MS O/S displays a system message indicating "Computer resources
are low' it is indicating nothing else but about the computer's memory
usage has become critically low and some program(s) need to be terminated
so that the O/S has enough memory to run.

Duane :)
 
You can knock me down with a feather on this. The usage of a program
running and coexisting with any other program running on the computer
including the O/S is based on the amount of memory that is available for
the programs to run in. The more memory the machine has the more programs
can run and the less paging of memory the O/S must do. The less memory the
O/S has the more memory paging it must do in order for the O/S to keep
programs running, which slows the computer down.

Ways to circumvent the problem:

1) Get more memory for the machine.
2) Run less program on the machine at the same time.
3) Find a program that uses less memory to run.

When the MS O/S displays a system message indicating "Computer resources
are low' it is indicating nothing else but about the computer's memory
usage has become critically low and some program(s) need to be terminated
so that the O/S has enough memory to run.
Click to expand...

"Resources", at lest in the context of Win9x based OSes refers to the
64K System, User and GDI heaps. That classic "Computer resources
are low" message relates to one or more of those resource heaps being
low rather than system memory.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34
 
Duane said:
When the MS O/S displays a system message indicating "Computer
resources are low' it is indicating nothing else but about the
computer's memory usage has become critically low and some program(s)
need to be terminated so that the O/S has enough memory to run.
Click to expand...

In the case of Windows 98 at least, you are wrong. The resources referred to
are indeed part of memory but adding more memory will not help as the
portion of memory referred to is a fixed size regardless of the amount of
physical ram and paging file space available. For the type of work described
by the OP, 256Mb of Ram should be ample for Windows 98 - it was written to
use far less.

Argle Bargle, have you looked at F-Prot for Windows? Last time I looked it,
which I admit was a leetle while ago, it was fairly frugal in how it spent
your computer power.

--
 
In the case of Windows 98 at least, you are wrong. The resources
referred to are indeed part of memory but adding more memory will not
help as the portion of memory referred to is a fixed size regardless
of the amount of physical ram and paging file space available. For the
type of work described by the OP, 256Mb of Ram should be ample for
Windows 98 - it was written to use far less.

Argle Bargle, have you looked at F-Prot for Windows? Last time I
looked it, which I admit was a leetle while ago, it was fairly frugal
in how it spent your computer power.
Click to expand...

OK I'll accept this. It has been many many moons since I last saw a Win 9'x
O/S.

Duane :)
 
Argle said:
above snipped<<
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I've been using F-Prot for Windows for quite a while and it is really easy
on resourses and also very fast on manual scans(of Zip files, etc.), updates
often and automatically. I would highly recommend it.

....Allen
 
snip
Try Avast. I've put it on similar machines with no ill effect. You can disable
those features you don't want (e.g., mail scanning).
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_153.html
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snip.
No thanks.
The last time I tried Avast it totally trashed my Windows installation.
I had to overwrite Windows and spent 2 weeks reinstalling all my tweaks.
Something Avast installed caused Explorer to crash before Windows
finished loading. I don't think I'll ever try any of that company's
products again.
Thanks anyway for the reply.
 
I've been using F-Prot for Windows for quite a while and it is really easy
on resourses and also very fast on manual scans(of Zip files, etc.), updates
often and automatically. I would highly recommend it.

...Allen
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Thanks, I think that's what I'm going to try.
 
snip.
Thanks everybody.
I'm going to try F-prot first.
I hope it gets along with Readerware.
 
Hi!
I've been running DrWeb for Windows for more than FIVE years now on my
Pentium 133 with 128 Mb Ram. I've never had any problems with resources or
viruses.
The architecture of this software is simply wonderful and if you're using
w9x then you will never find a better vxd than the one included in the
package to monitor your PC (spider.vxd) without slowing you down in any way.
I changed to VirusChaser only six months ago because I knew it was based on
DrWeb 's engine and architecture (only the user interface has been improved,
the rest is 100% DrWeb technology) and I strongly recommend it to you.
The package available at www.virusdesk.com is only 4Mo, it installs in less
than a minute and is a FULLY FUNCTIONAL version whose updates are time
limited for 30 days (though after this time limitation ViruChaser is still
updated automatically... Don't ask me why...)
Bye!
 
Hello again,
F-Prot is quite good (nad dated) but the updates are not cumulative , you
have to download more than one Mo each time on a regular basis... Not to
mention its interface...
Cheers!
 
Argle said:
Hi,
I'm in the market for a new AV prog for a pc with the following specs.
Windows 98 (original, not SE)
Celeron 533
256 mb Ram
6 gig hd.
Click to expand...
<snip>

I suggest you don't use this old PC for mail or news. You receive most virus
from mail. If it doesn't slow your PC down too much, use a free AV-program
(that you easily can turn on and off), a free firewall and run adaware from
time to time.
 
Try AVG (www.grisoft.com) or Avast (www.avast.com) both have low system
impact in my experience and are updated reasonably often ...



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