From: STeve Andre' (andres_at_pilot.msu.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 22:32:21 EDT
What I tell my users to do when they complain about the slowness of
anti-viral software is to disable it except for when they're getting
something foreign. In that case they can fire up McAfee and do
whatever. If its on the disk already, AND you fire it up before
getting the new object you'll be safe. So far, my users who have
laptops have been diligent about that and have been OK.
I am fairly impressed with McAfee--they've been atop of things, usually
right along or a little ahead of the others from the last couple of
times I tested things. I've had good luck with McAfee not messing up
other programs in win95. I have 98 on my tp i 1451 and so far it seems
OK there, too. Given how awful getting a virus can be, I'd say stay
away from the freebies. It's chesp enough for the real things to make
even one attack worth the cost.
--STeve Andre'
andres_at_pilot.msu.edu
At 07:37 PM 6/2/99 -0400, Bruce Markowitz wrote:
>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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