Re: Questions about 32-bit vs 64-bit

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pc nerd wrote:
I just got my first laptop with 64-bit Vista Home Premium. I've been
on the 'net for hours trying to find 64-bit versions of 3rd-party
anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, & personal firewalls. I
haven't had much luck. I know that 64-bit Vista will run 32-bit
programs. Say, for example, that I have a choice of 2 anti-virus
programs that are identical except for 1 thing. One is 32-bit & one
is 64-bit.This is my main question. Does it really make any
difference whether I install a 32-bit or 64-bit antivirus,
antispyware, antirootkit, personal firewall program? Does the 64-bit
program offer more "protection" than the 32-bit? One of the first
things that I did after I got my laptop was to set up a standard
account. I did install a 3rd party antivirus program in the standard
account. When it comes to antivirus, antispyware, antirootkit &
personal firewalls, should I install them in the administrator
account or the standard account?


Assuming there exists a 64-bit and a 32-bit version of an anti-virus
package, firewall, or the like, they should offer the same protection and
the 64-bit version should be faster. How much faster?

Perhaps two milli-seconds per century.

A 16-bit anti-virus program can easily keep up with whatever's coming in
over the wire or being read from disk, with 90% of the CPU cycles going
idle.

As to administrator vs. standard, I don't know.


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