Evilhead Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Anti-virus programs are stupid. Aside from the blaster worm back a few years ago that wreaked havoc on my system for a couple weeks, any virus program running constantly slows down your system more than getting a virus from time to time and deleting it. It's like choosing to have a cold all the time so you never get the flu. Just scan every month or so and surf the net wisely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrion Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I honestly don't notice the performance impact, but that's because I'm not running Norton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I honestly don't notice the performance impact, but that's because I'm not running Norton. Or McAfee, for that matter. They both are really, really, REALLY bad programs to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Effef Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Or McAfee, for that matter. They both are really, really, REALLY bad programs to use. thirded on this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoke Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Anti-virus programs are stupid. Aside from the blaster worm back a few years ago that wreaked havoc on my system for a couple weeks, any virus program running constantly slows down your system more than getting a virus from time to time and deleting it. It's like choosing to have a cold all the time so you never get the flu. Just scan every month or so and surf the net wisely. A good scanner will have virtually no impact on your system's performance and take up very little resources, and if you really need said performance(for games) you can always temporarily disable the scanner. I personally run Antivir on my PC, although my main system is now a Macbook. Antivir's lightweight, detects a lot of stuff, and is pretty damn fast too. It's never given me any kind of performance impact, even running stuff that required a lot from my PC. Also, if you got infected by Blaster, it just means that you didn't update Windows XP when you should have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilhead Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 What would be the most lightweight scanner out there? I've used AVG and others but they still seem to be more annoying than useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merk Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 gahahahaha sorry this is terrible I know I tried your suggestion. What sort of Virus is this OSX? Now NONE of my programs work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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