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To: weef
By the way, from the Coding Horror blog you can see how your anti-virus program is affecting your machine. The article is about 18 months old but is still relevant IMO.
Percent slower
Boot
CPU
Disk
Norton Internet Security 2006 46% 20% 2369%
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8 7% 20% 2246%
Norton Internet Security 2007 45% 8% 1515%
Trend Micro PC-cillin AV 2006 2% 0% 1288%
ZoneAlarm ISS 16% 0% 992%
Norton Antivirus 2002 11% 8% 658%
Windows Live OneCare 11% 8% 512%
Webroot Spy Sweeper 6% 8% 369%
Nod32 v2.5 7% 8% 177%
avast! 4.7 Home 4% 8% 115%
Windows Defender 5% 8% 54%
Panda Antivirus 2007 20% 4% 15%
AVG 7.1 Free 15% 0% 19%

23 posted on 06/27/2008 12:31:53 PM PDT by weef
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To: weef

AVG 7.5 is still available for business and network use, and still works well. The price works out to $10 per CPU per year, including servers.


26 posted on 06/27/2008 12:37:47 PM PDT by js1138
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To: weef

placemarker


51 posted on 06/27/2008 2:30:41 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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