From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 19:37:58 EDT
More important is to have a startup disk with a virus scanner on it.
That can save your a.. when on the road. I never keep anti-virus
software active in Windows, as it inevitably causes more problems than
it is worth.
Practice safe computing (wear a condom), don't accept any attachemnts
unless you are expecting them, and have that virus scanner handy!
Vrondi wrote:
>
> Hello everyone. i've just purchased a used Thinkpad 755CD.
> Now, I'm thinking of what programs I want to carry on the road,
> and I got to Anti-virus software. I already have McAfee VirusScan 4
> on my desktop. But since this laptop is a 486, I was thinking McAfee
> might be afwully slow on it.
> Does anyone have a virus program to recommend that uses few system
> resources?
> And what about Freeware/Shareware ones? Any of them worht
> bothering with?
>
> //Chrys Amy Dean | Vrondi on EFNET IRC
> "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process
> he does not become a monster; and when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Friedrich Nietzsc
> he
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