Here's the thing. Most PCs I see are home user PCs, usualy using XP home or win98. The most common problem I see is slow PCs. The most common reason is the antivirus program. Of course it's usually not JUST the AV prog. It's usually that something came along, and kicked ccapp (norton) into ultra-high gear, or whatever. BUt the quickest way I can fix it is uninstall norton, or mcafee, or whoever the offender is.
So when everything is OK, right now, BUT a guy needs a new AV prog... I'm reluctant to recommend any.
Example -- this guy has a nice little 600mhz PC, that's running win2k, really well (except for one thing -- diff post). POint is, it's fast for a little 600mhz pc. But his norton 2003 is expired.
This is precisely the sort of situation where, for example, I might say, "even tho IT people hate NORton, norton seems to be treating you OK for now, so let's try to update your subscription" -- so we to pay for a new NAV2003 subscription, but only after downloading is it clear that they've sold us a new version, NIS2005, and it fourks up his PC, which is never fast again, even if we uninstall NIS2005.
OR, I install AVG Free and ewido, and immediately have to unisntall EWIDO becuase it likewise grinds things to a halt. So then I install add Spybot to replace the Ewido - and get the friggin "bad checksum" error, so it never updates. So I try the microsoft antispyware.... (Just kidding)
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POint is -- IF my goal is to protect these guys WITHOUT slowing down their PCs -- is there some resource I can use, or a rule of thumb, on How to be conservative on using resources, but still protect them?
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