Need a av/firewall that's light on resources

footballstevo75

footballstevo75

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OK so usually I use the mcafee suite for my needs as it is free to comcast subscribers.

I have an older system (AMD k6 i believe) around 600mhz that needs to run XP :eek: I have 256mb of ram, and with the mcafee suite install start up is a bit slugish.
So I need a good combo that is low on resources, would the standard free ones (firealarm and what not) work fine for firewalls? And AVG would be a good one for AV scanning and what not?

Finally, this should be in a different sub forum, but I am going to combine them. Anything I can do to make a standard install of XP lighter or quicker?

TIA
 
You could not install SP2 use a router that has integrated firewall settings. Use online scanning software like housecall which scans your system online. That way you don't slow down your systems. I would suggest to add another 256 of ram.
 
get a router with a built in firewall and look into buying something like nod32. I think it only has a fingerprint of a few megabytes so it is light on the resources.
 
Well the pc isn't for me, all my routers have a firewall built in.

It is going towards a needy family most likely with dial up.

Nod32 looks really good, may buy that.
But what about a firewall?
 
If someone is going to be using it with dialup I would not even install a firewall just use the windows firewall and avg...its free. I use nod32 myself and it does use more resources than AVG. Nod32 also seems to take a minute or two to update because I never connect at more than 50kbps with their server even though I am on 6Mb DSL but thats still faster than dialup and that means it would take 10 to 20 minutes just for one update using dialup. Dialup blows, do people still even use dialup? Anyway I would look at free AV's that have small update packages so the users can always keep their AV up to date.
 
dude, no one attacks anything on dial up.... firewall on dial up? It uses a PPP connection so their IP will always change. No one targets dial up users, trust me. It is the always on broadband that gets attacked.
 
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