On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Jean Christophe Andr? <jean-christophe.andre at auf.org> wrote: > Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : >> VH ?ang d?ng AVG Antivirus 8 (Free Edition) v? ZoneAlarm firewall (Free >> Edition). >> H?i b?c m?nh v? 2 ch??ng tr?nh n?y d?ng nhi?u memory l?m ?nh h?ong ??n t?c >> ?? c?a m?y. >> > I doubt ZoneAlarm is making your computer slow down, because it's only a > firewall filter and it only has to analyze a little amount of data. ZoneAlarm is a firewall, it is a closed source application so I don't know much about it: Zone Alarm has quite small footprint( 20MB is big???) but I don't know if it does anything other than monitor an scanning the network interface. I thought that it is some kind of heuristic algorithm but as far as I can "feel", iptables beats it in term of performance.
I've run "top" on a heavy-traffic box but iptables never shown on top. > On > the other side, any antivirus which analyze every single file opened > will, for sure, slow down your computer a lot! Note that if you still > want that kind of softwares, you could use some combined one instead of > separated one which probably do not collaborate for more efficiency. In fact, I think an antivirus software does more than file IO scanning. In the first post, I have asked the same question: "Is there any fast - small footprint - antivirus software out there? clamav can not hook Windows File IO APIs so it is not fit home users' need. Feel free to fix me if you think I am wrong :) > > What's funny is that you really could seriously secure a Windows > computer, if you take (have) the time to do it! Even without running any > antivirus bloatware, the same as for GNU/Linux in fact. Do you know that? I know that it is not good to post a Windows related question on a Linux ML. However, looking for alternative FLOSS for WIndows is a thing I am trying to do, for me, for my friends... But see its effects: I got more than 20 emails until today :) [snip] # Will be forwarded to a third person. > All this is tuned correctly by default in a GNU/Linux system. This is > one of the main reasons why GNU/Linux is far more appropriate than > Windows when you need a secure environment, especially for end-users. > And shouldn't everybody need one? The problem is the User Interface and the softwares they run on the OS, not the OS itself. Security is a reason but not all. I am sure that most of the average users don't care about security: They have a firewall and an antivirus software to make them feel safe, they trust the OS maker delivering the best OS with good price to them. Did I mentioned a "good price"? Oh, no, "WIndows is free", at least in Vietnam: cf. http://autotelic.com/windows_is_free -- Best Regards, Nguyen Hung Vu [aka: NVH] ( in Vietnamese: Nguy?n V? H?ng ) vuhung16plus{[email protected] , YIM: vuhung16 , Skype: vuhung16dg A brief profile: http://www.hn.is.uec.ac.jp/~vuhung/Nguyen.Vu.Hung.html
