I also remember listening to radio via amplitude modulation! ;-) -- ME2
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Phillip Partipilo <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember a day/age where we did all of that MS Office stuff, with 133 > mhz and 24 megs of RAM. Don’t think we used AV back then, however. Also > don’t think we had the luxury of auto spell correction, uh, that silly > ribbon thing, uh. What else… We still did all of that J > > > > > > Phillip Partipilo > > Parametric Solutions Inc. > > Jupiter, Florida > > (561) 747-6107 > > > > > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:11 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: NOD32 Antivirus > > > > Here at my office we run Word, Excel, Outlook, IE (sometimes) and AS/400 > terminal. These machines get bogged down on anything less than about a gig > of memory. We’re mostly an Optiplex 740 shop here, and I started ordering my > machines with ½ gig of memory, thinking that would be sufficient. It’s not. > My personal experience is that even on reasonably powerful machines (AMD > Athlon X2) you need at least a gig of memory, especially if the memory is > shared with video. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:56 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: NOD32 Antivirus > > > > 512MB is entirely adequate for XP if the primary use of the machine is MS > Office apps. AV shouldn’t have an adverse effect on this. I would expect > some performance hit, but not “bogged” down as the OP stated. He doesn’t > mention CPU or CPU load, so it may not be a memory issue. > > > > Having said that, Nod32 does seem to work well in legacy environments. I > use it on a couple of clients that have older equipment and I never hear > complaints, nor do I notice a loss of performance when I am working on these > machines. > > > > -- > Mike Gill > > > > *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:24 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: NOD32 Antivirus > > > > Dang… if Vipre bogs down the workstations, I dare say just about anything > else you want to put on them will bog it down as well. 512 Mb is NOT a lot > of memory. Have you looked at upgrading the memory on those machines? DDR > and SDRAM DIMMs are not that expensive any more. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *From:* Jim Dandy [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:16 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* NOD32 Antivirus > > > > I’m interested in hearing feedback on NOD32 antivirus. How is it in terms > of accuracy of identifying and protecting computers from viruses and other > sorts of malware? How is it in terms of the load it puts on workstations? > I’ve got a bunch of old XP systems with 512 MB ram and they seem to get > bogged down by other antivirus software (VIPRE and Sophos). Initial tests > indicate that NOD might be better. What is your experience? > > > > Have you used ESET NOD32? How is it as a central management point for > antivirus on the workstations? > > > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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