McAfee and Comcast

[Guest]

Thanks Vanguard, you have been a great help !! I'm going to mix this
cocktail and install it. Was it you who mentioned the Grisoft AVG
Anti-Rootkit? I read a review, and they said to be carefull, it is BETA.
What did they mean? Is this program too big or powerfull for my laptop?
HP Pavillion xv5330us 7.9 lbs.
-- Intel Pent. 4 3.2 GH
Gregory 512 MB 80 GB Hard Drive

 

[bojimbo26]

I am only in my 3rd year of computer use: hp pav. laptop. My ISP is Comcast
(east coast USA) with McAfee Security Suite included for $58 Mo. I have
heard some negative things about this security and I would appreciate any
feedback as to the problems I face and to whether it is sufficient for me at
this time, or whether I would be best off paying for a different firewall and
virus protection. Thanks, love you all !

Comodo firewall ( free ) , Avast antivirus ( free ) .

 

[Guest]

Windows XP Home SP2
--
Gregory

Thanks Vanguard, you have been a great help !! I'm going to mix this
cocktail and install it. Was it you who mentioned the Grisoft AVG
Anti-Rootkit? I read a review, and they said to be carefull, it is BETA.
What did they mean? Is this program too big or powerfull for my laptop?
HP Pavillion xv5330us 7.9 lbs.
-- Intel Pent. 4 3.2 GH
Gregory 512 MB 80 GB Hard Drive

 

[Vanguard]

in message

Thanks Vanguard, you have been a great help !! I'm going to mix this
cocktail and install it. Was it you who mentioned the Grisoft AVG
Anti-Rootkit? I read a review, and they said to be carefull, it is
BETA.
What did they mean? Is this program too big or powerfull for my
laptop?
HP Pavillion xv5330us 7.9 lbs.
-- Intel Pent. 4 3.2 GH
Gregory 512 MB 80 GB Hard Drive

You are at what I would consider the bare minimum for memory to run
Windows XP. I don't care what Microsoft says is the minimum. Their
"recommendation" level is actually the minimum.

Memory consumption (totals):
System Safety Monitor: 12MB real + 9MB virtual
AVG antivirus: 4MB real + 33MB virtual
Comodo firewall: 32MB real + 28MB virtual
Windows Defender: 24MB real + 17MB virtual

Whether the above impacts your real memory consumption too much really
depends on how much you currently have free or what others you could
eliminate from loading on startup. I would recommend NOT using System
Safety Monitor (or ProcessGuard) if you can't figure out all the
prompts. These provide protection at a low level so answering prompts
about the caller program or using a library or hooks might be beyond
your understanding. I sometimes get daunted by the prompts trying to
figure out my best choice.

The other products I mentioned are only run as on-demand scanners. That
is, I don't enable (or I disable) any background processes or startup of
them. I just use them manually to do scans when I feel like it.

 

[Guest]

Hello, I uninstalled McAfee and installed Comodo FW; Windows Defender;
AVG(Ewido) Antispy; Avast Anti-Virus; and Ad-Aware. They are all running
smoothly, thanks to all the help I got here. You have been a big help
Vanguard and I will never forget your care and kindness. Gratefully,

 

[Vanguard]

Hello, I uninstalled McAfee and installed Comodo FW; Windows
Defender;
AVG(Ewido) Antispy; Avast Anti-Virus; and Ad-Aware. They are all
running
smoothly, thanks to all the help I got here. You have been a big help
Vanguard and I will never forget your care and kindness. Gratefully,

AVG Antispy (ewido) will cripple itself after the 30-day trial, so there
is no point in leaving it configured to load on Windows startup since
eventually it won't do that.