OT: Corporate antivirus

[Gareth]

I did upgrade machines to 512MB which made them at least usable but they
still run slower than the previous version of trend did when the machines
had 256mb. I think their new anti spyware and anti rootkit feature are
slowing it down too much.

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> I know this is all OT, but if you really want to run XP in 256Mb then I
> recommend XPLite. I used to run XP on an OQO with 256Mb of RAM in it,
> and ran firefox and thunderbird on it without it swapping.
>
> But no, I certainly didn't try to run a virus scanner on it!
>
> It can be done, but it has to be done carefully or you wind up with a
> system that runs like a stuffed pig (or like vista).
>
> Scott Silva wrote:
> > on 1/23/2008 8:28 AM Gareth spake the following:
> >> We have been using Trend for the last few years but the latest version
> >> we upgraded to a year ago has really gone downhill. We had to upgrade
> >> the XP machines from 256MB to 512MB just so that the machine did not
> >> take over 5 minutes to boot (no exaggeration).
> >>
> >> What do you recommend as a good corporate antivirus and preferebly anti
> >> spyware product as we are seriously considering switching?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Gareth
> >>
> > 256 megs and XP takes time to boot even without a virus scanner, but
> > we are using McAfee corporate 8.5 and it seems to be fairly unobtrusive.
> > But 256 meg machines are just slow with XP. 384 megs is enough to see
> > a difference.
> >
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> Jules
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