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Originally Posted by g__day
Hey I can remember Kobe - when RAM was $100 a MB. Building a 486 system with 8MB of RAM was prohibitively expensive!
I use Avast nowadays - if it even things one of your licenses are expired - it doesn't straight away tell you - it goes real slow. Once the licenses are correctly confirmed - it has periods when it monopolises and pretty much freezes a quad core machine (minute or two at a time on start up) then everything is back to life.
Also pays to schedule updates for 4am or some time when you are sure you'll be asleep and the PC shouldn't be working hard!
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Mate, I paid $400 for a 48KB upgrade back in the day, that is about...$8,533 per Megabyte, so 4GB would have set me back over $34,000!!
I agree with Barry, if you are not connected to the net then you can just run a boot disc scanner occasionally to make sure you didn't bring something in on a USB drive etc. If you are connected to the net, but don't do much, just make sure you have a good firewall and check weekly or so with a boot disc scanner. No need to have bloated anti-virus software clogging everything up, I'm amazed how much it slows down even fast windows machines. I do most of my work on OSX these days, so don't have the same issues, but have removed AV software from my windows machines and am just careful and run the boot disc regularly. Have had no infections in over 2 years.