Re: Laptop Anti-Virus?

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From: Chuck Blaisdell (cblaisd_at_tdl.com)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 20:14:45 EDT


On 2 Jun 99, at 19:02, 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?
>
There is a fully functional version of Symantec's Anti-Virus program
available from
http://www.ded.com/nonags/av32.html

It's free and it's updated regularly. Is not the system hog that newer
ones are. You'll want to get the av-data updates from that site.

> //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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