I know for a fact that Anti-Virus has negative effect on a system. I'm now using Ubuntu 8.04 and running Windows XP Pro on a virtual machine. If the "online" protection of my anti-virus is running ... the virtual machine is REALLY slow, turn it off and its fast.
I also have a really old Hitachi Flora with 233 Pentium II cpu and 192MB memory. Its being used by my wards (2 elementary, 3 high school and 1 college) for school work when our main computer is occupied (playing counterstrike most likely). The OS is Windows 2000 Professional with avast home edition as its anti-virus. So if I turn on the real-time protection ... the system cannot even browse the internet without a lot of patience. I believe that if your PC is going to be used only in your private network ... you will never need real-time protection. You can just scan your machine during off-peak hours. On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 09:46 +0000, Björn Helgason wrote: > It would be interesting to know if there is a significant difference between > the same J system in various operating systems. > Also if virusprotection is having influence on the response of the systems. > > I have the feeling that in at least some of the operating systems the virus > protection is not needed and only having negative effect on response. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- "The right questions are more important than the right answers to the wrong questions." -Dr. John Romagna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
