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

[RVC]

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.

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Rob Moir
Microsoft MVP for servers & security
http://www.robertmoir.co.uk
"802.11bofh - the *other* power over ethernet standard"

Agree with You Rob
F-PROT 4 Windows is almost transparent as far as system rescources go

 

[RVC]

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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 Just removed avast from my system...after months of trouble free operation
the latest update resulted in consistent and irritating error messages

RVC

 

[Robert Moir]

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.

Oh come on now, this is getting on for the worse advice I've seen dispensed
in here.

 

[WB5803]

Oh come on now, this is getting on for the worse advice I've seen dispensed

in here.

I agreee. F-Prot for DOS would be sufficient.

 

[Jip \(North\)]

Oh come on now, this is getting on for the worse advice I've seen dispensed
in here.

True... run Spybot, instead of AdAware, if its one or the other.

I run AVG free (which runs in the background) and
subscription-expired Norton Firewall on my
Win ME, P166, with 64 mb ram, 48X CD burner, 20 gig hdd, with no
problems at all,
and use it for mail and the net, and everything else.

15 inch monitor was a bit small, until I replaced it with a 19
inch one