I have a five year old computer - with as much memory as is possible
to install... and I have Mcaffery ( sp) Virus Protector installed on
it a few months ago... and needless to say... it has slowed the
machine up by a huge amount..Question... Are  there are any Anti Virus
programs specifically for older machines, perhaps not so extensive
that would not slow  the machine down so much.  If so... what is the
name of the program or programs and where would I find them.  Thank
you

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 06 Jul 2003 19:51 PDT

In order to give you an appropiate answer we need to know more about
your old PC. Please can you provide a description of it, including
Proccesor model, amount of RAM, Operating System, etc.

Thank you.
livioflores-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by feilong-ga on 07 Jul 2003 04:06 PDT

Are you willing to purchase the software, in case it's not freeware?

Feilong

I have a five year old computer with a cyrix MII 300MHZ processor with
64MB Memory and I use AVG Anti Virus software which ran with no
problems whats more its free , you can get a copy from
www.grisoft.com.

Rather than looking at a different piece of software, it may be worth
looking at different ways of using the software you have. For
instance, until very recently my main PC was a Pentium Pro 200 MHz. I
also used McAfee but customised the options to make it as
inconspicuous as possible. You could do the same.

For instance, you may have it set to constantly scan your hard drive
in the background. This can inflict a serious performance hit. However
it is checking files that are already checked and thus not benefitting
you.

Why not disable the constant background scan (after running a complete
scan once to ensure that you are currently virus free). However keep
enabled the internet filter, the download scan and the floppy seek
scan, so that any new files that end up on your PC by whatever means
are checked on the way in.

This should keep your protection but speed your PC back up.

Poe

first, r u worried about long term protection against web infection?
because for "web trap" and "email trap" and functions like that u HAVE
to put in the memory.  if u just want to perform check up from time to
time,
go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
it is a free virus scan by trend micro's PC-Cillin engine.
it is quiet good (surprisingly for a webbased free one)

also, if u want, download PC-Cillin (u'd need to register i think
after the trial, it's ur choices to do it or not)  It takes much less
memory than Mcafie and such GIANT softwares.

how do i post answer?

Antivirus "Stop!"
System requirements:
OS: Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP 
Internet Explorer 5 or higher
Pentium 100 MHz or higher
32 MB RAM 
6 MB on hard drive

Interface Languages: Russian, English, Ukrainian, German, Bulgarian, Estonian.
Price: 13 $ (one year subscription)
Download link: http://www.proantivirus.com/ftp/stop410.exe
Official site: http://www.proantivirus.com
P.S. On my old computer (Pentium 166MMX it works faster)