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| 1379340 | 2014-07-16 22:30:00 | Just what are the specs of this old laptop anyway. If its quite slow , then modern AV just may kill it , speed wise. Saying that, there are still some pretty quick , old XP laptops out there (many arnt though) |
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| 1379341 | 2014-07-16 23:00:00 | Apparently said laptop was only two years old (why it didn't have Windows 7 is a mystery) - IIRC it had some form of Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM, so not sluggish. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1379342 | 2014-07-17 05:27:00 | Check out Avast, it's good and the price is right. I did a search of reviews... this is the first one,Check it out and try it,I doubt that you'll be disappointed.Cheers www.pcpro.co.uk |
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| 1379343 | 2014-07-17 05:29:00 | If it's xp put it on nod32 don't take risks | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1379344 | 2014-07-17 05:39:00 | I agree, it's not worth pissing around for the cost of a few bucks a year for NOd32. It'll save you way more than it's worth in lost time both fixing it when it gets infected and the slow-down from the free AV's. Just get them to bite the bullet and get it, it's not expensive. |
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| 1379345 | 2014-07-17 06:00:00 | Dead right. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1379346 | 2014-07-17 06:10:00 | Check out Avast, it's good and the price is right. I did a search of reviews... this is the first one,Check it out and try it,I doubt that you'll be disappointed.Cheers www.pcpro.co.uk Good for a laugh , its months out of date -- 21 Feb 2014 -- you cant trust those types of reviews, never can never will. The REAL review is what Tech see all the time on peoples computers. Avast -- Tell the person whos computer I had to reinstall last week that Avast is good - it was reinstalled due to infections making a total mess of the whole system to the point it couldn't boot. Once I got it booting no surprise the Antivirus was damaged to a non working state. I slaved their drive to recover their data, the workshop PC that has Nod on went nuts stopping infections even before setting a scan going. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1379347 | 2014-07-17 07:57:00 | If you decide to install Avast I recommend that you set "updates" to manual to avoid the too frequent checking for new definitions which can be a bother when busy otherwise online. This will put a warning symbol on the taskbar icon but you can ignore it as the program will otherwise be fully protective. I manually update avast weekly. |
blanco (11336) | ||
| 1379348 | 2014-07-17 22:44:00 | If you decide to install Avast I recommend that you set "updates" to manual to avoid the too frequent checking for new definitions This will put a warning symbol on the taskbar icon You can turn that notification on the icon off too... one thing I like about Avast is its array of options :D I usually update once or twice a week too. |
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| 1379349 | 2014-07-18 02:08:00 | Apparently said laptop was only two years old (why it didn't have Windows 7 is a mystery) - IIRC it had some form of Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM, so not sluggish. 2 Years old... It MUST have a Win7 License. Possibly came bundled with a Win7 restore CD there were no XP licenses 2 years ago. Just downgrades First thing I would suggest is load Win7 on it. If its still on XP, you cant be that serious about security NOD32 is NOT the panacea that so many claim I have seen many NOD32 PC's get infected (we were a NOD32 reseller) Its often user stupidity that gets PC's infected, no AV can prevent that. |
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