Food for thought

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Wed Mar 3 20:58:20 GMT 2004


Marco Obaid wrote:
> Add to this, that most Desktop Antivirus solutions do hijack system resources.
> I have caught many users turning off the Antivirus because it "slows down"
> their machines. I do not blame them, because I have done this myself a time or
> two when I was working on complex project with so many screens open.

The user of a workstation should not be logged on as an admin and the
virus scanner should run as an admin so it can't be closed by the user.

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/Peter Bonivart

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