Re: McAfee and Comcast

"Gregory" wrote in message news:107C05F3-16EE-4A77-9B15-3F7F815C95C7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Vanguard, you have been a great help !! I'm going to mix this
cocktail and install it. Was it you who mentioned the Grisoft AVG
Anti-Rootkit? I read a review, and they said to be carefull, it is BETA.
What did they mean? Is this program too big or powerfull for my laptop?
HP Pavillion xv5330us 7.9 lbs.
-- Intel Pent. 4 3.2 GH
Gregory 512 MB 80 GB Hard Drive


You are at what I would consider the bare minimum for memory to run Windows XP. I don't care what Microsoft says is the minimum. Their "recommendation" level is actually the minimum.

Memory consumption (totals):
System Safety Monitor: 12MB real + 9MB virtual
AVG antivirus: 4MB real + 33MB virtual
Comodo firewall: 32MB real + 28MB virtual
Windows Defender: 24MB real + 17MB virtual

Whether the above impacts your real memory consumption too much really depends on how much you currently have free or what others you could eliminate from loading on startup. I would recommend NOT using System Safety Monitor (or ProcessGuard) if you can't figure out all the prompts. These provide protection at a low level so answering prompts about the caller program or using a library or hooks might be beyond your understanding. I sometimes get daunted by the prompts trying to figure out my best choice.

The other products I mentioned are only run as on-demand scanners. That is, I don't enable (or I disable) any background processes or startup of them. I just use them manually to do scans when I feel like it.

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