03-02-2015, 11:01 AM
(03-02-2015, 09:56 AM)pwdrive Wrote:(03-02-2015, 09:04 AM)Nick Wrote: How much memory (RAM) on this machine?
1Gb.
Lawrence.
Hmm - a bit marginal with Windows 7...
(03-02-2015, 10:28 AM)pwdrive Wrote: Well...dumped the Norton anitvirus and installed the basic AVG free job...much faster, will see how it goes.
Lawrence.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend AVG these days. They used to be good, but that was a few years ago. Avast is the current recommendation for free AV.
However, I wouldn't use that either. I've found that Microsoft Security Essentials is perfectly adequate, and is a lot less resource-hungry than the 3rd-party products. In fact, some of my machines are totally unprotected, and I've never managed to pick up anything untoward (not that I recommend that to general users!). If you have broadband, you're almost certainly behind a decent NAT firewall, so it's not like the dial-up days...
Having "removed" Norton, use CCleaner to remove all the mess it usually leaves behind. It's a horrid product (IME, at least).
