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Post by hughphamism on Feb 29, 2008 22:58:20 GMT 1
What can anyone recommend me? Or is it best to get the paid for stuff?
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Post by andyhudd on Feb 29, 2008 23:00:58 GMT 1
AVG free edition has been alright for me.
I have Norton too mind (paid for).
Andy.
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Post by rantinray on Mar 2, 2008 15:04:15 GMT 1
DO NOT TOUCH Norton. AntiVir personal edition. top notch, free download and also Spybot. I say again do not buy Norton, I have it and I had to remove it from my PC, it made it run at half speed and took over my computer.
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Post by hughphamism on Mar 24, 2008 21:10:10 GMT 1
I tried AVG but it slowed my machine down to a crawl (crappy Dell admittedly). Gonna try the stuff bbb's just listed on another thread & will give antivir a go as well if needed. Cheers for the help.
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Post by bbb on Mar 24, 2008 22:10:24 GMT 1
To be fair all AV will have an impact on performance because of the way it functions.
I am surprised however you are having a problem with AVG. For a free AV product Its the best around. It’s a small but effective antivirus application, popular firstly for being free and secondly for using hardly any system resources to run. AVG is capable of running very fast, even on older computers.
All AV sits in memory (RAM) so the more memory you have the better.
How much memory do you have incidentally.
And always remember this.....
Companies that sell anti-virus software have a financial incentive for viruses to be written and to spread, and for the public to panic over the threat.
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Post by pdmanx on Mar 25, 2008 13:39:22 GMT 1
Just put AVG on here, with no problems. Theres aso one called Avast thats worth looking at too.
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Post by n7t on Mar 25, 2008 20:52:16 GMT 1
Just put AVG on here, with no problems. Theres aso one called Avast thats worth looking at too. I find Avast is a lot less of a hog than AVG. |
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Post by hughphamism on Mar 26, 2008 9:21:17 GMT 1
I think it's got 256M of RAM. 160GB hard drive with 107GB free. It can be 20 minutes before it's useable. I was using bit defender before with no obvious issues.
Even when I've been using it fine it'll sometimes seem to suddenly stop being responsive. With nothing open and I'm trying to close it down it can be 5 minutes from pressing shut down on the start bar before I get the option to close. Very frustrating! It's as if it's constantly trying to write to the hard drive.
Just had the machine on this morning for 40 minutes. Was using it OK. came back to it & it was very slow & did exactly as above when trying to close it. It hadn't done any update either.
We only use the machine to store pictures & music & go on the internet so it's not got lots of programmes etc on.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2008 16:38:49 GMT 1
Get some more RAM mate. Its cheaps as chips nowadays. use www.crucial.com to see what sort you need. Id get an extra gig at least... |
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Post by bbb on Mar 26, 2008 23:29:50 GMT 1
I think it's got 256M of RAM. You need at least 1 GB in this day and age mate |
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Post by hughphamism on Mar 27, 2008 23:38:37 GMT 1
It seems like only yesterday when we got this machine but it must have been at least 3 years ago, fair point!
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Post by Polish Hippy on Mar 28, 2008 16:20:42 GMT 1
One thing you can try to reduce the start up time is limit the number of programmes that open up when you boot up the PC. Loads of programmes compete for RAM when the PC boots up and things like MSN, Yahoo Messenger and pop up blockers all slow the PC loading up properly. You will also get many programmes running in the backgrounds, eg software updates etc that will also us up RAM. So for example you could disable the iTunes update until you actually open up iTunes rather than it running in the background using valuable resources. Have a read of this LINK a very useful guide for closing down un-necssary start-up and background programmes and decluttering your PC. BBB is right about your RAM though, you need to at least double it if not quadruple what you already have. |
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