AV effect speed

i am running the panda platinum and my puter seems to be slower, i mean i have highspeed sympatico so it's not ultra fast anyway, but t=do AV software bog down the puter?

phatts

 

Some AV's use more resources than others, and some are actually resource hogs. For someone who owns a fast, updated modern computer it shouldn't be a problem. On the other hand if your computer is slower, older, small amount of RAM, etc., then yes certain AV's could cause a slow down in one's computer. Another thing to consider is how much garbage do you have running in the backgroung if your computer isn't up to date speed/memory wise?
If you have an older/slower computer then I would recommend either NOD32 or F-Prot because of their small footprint/minimal resource usage.
If your computer is running really slow you might want to scan for spyware/adware.

 

hey

my puter is pentium 4, 2yrs old and i have512mb ram i believ

the guy at the puter shop informed me of the
rub..........msconfig......disable all running programs at startup..

phats

 

What is puter?

 

Not the best idea, some apps are worth running @ startup.

Could be a corrupt install. Do you have more than 1 AV on your computer? Have you defragged lately? P4 you should be OK. Panda didn't bog my laptop down, have a 1.8GHZ P4M. There were other reasons why I uninstalled it.

 

puter=computer i think

 

i just defraged last nite, and only 1
AV is running, i have mcafee on there that i cannot delete (write protected?), but it is not running....and AVG is just sitting in a folder for safekeeping

phats

 

Sorry should have been more clear. I mean installed AVs.

McAfee, you can try something like JV16 PowerTools to pull it out, but if its installed, could be part of the problem. Panda isn't a resource intensive AV like F-Secure. Kind of mid to mid-low.

 

feel free to decipher these!!!

 

and this one!!!!

 

dear phatkid, looks like you have a lot of apps in your computer. it seems that you need to search your system using Spybot and SpywareBlaster. you have Spybot i can see but could be a corrupt uninstalltion. yes you have some Network Associates products and some possible spywares. if i were you i'd format my system and do a fresh install. thats the best bet, but not the last one. run RegCleaner from jvPowertools and cleanout your registry. here is a link from where you can download a program that shows you which programs are auto-starting. disable the ones you don't want to start automatically. use jvPowertools cleaner to clean your drives. then tell us what happened.

 

can i just delete all hte files the reg cleaner finds??

my spybot always finds just 7 entries

downloadware....2entries
dso exploit...........5 entries.......this all it ever finds every time, also coudn't fix the downloadware entries maybe after a restart which didn't help


thanks

 

delete mcafee in safe mode, it has never failed me.

 

no dear phatkid, you shouldn't delete registry entries like that. you can delete the Spybot detections though. i think you should go for the formatting. if you have a CD burner make sure you burn an image after installations.