On 10/11/2007 21:28, Alan Boba wrote:
On Nov 8, 2007 2:45 AM, Enea Micheli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks a lot, but in my opinion it isn't only a matter of RAM. My PC has 512
MB RAM, but if I use openoffice 2.2 on Linux (kubuntu), the files (even
files of 350MB) run well, only a little bit slow in the loading process.
Probably Linux, as usually, rules and Windows in only a great monster hungry
of memory.
On 10/11/2007 13:16, Alan Boba wrote:
I thought of one other thing. Make sure you have a good
antivirus/antispyware program installed and have run it against the
full system.
My shared XP Pro computer is used for online games by three boys age
10 to 15. Even though I have all user accounts set up with 'User"
privileges (instead of Super User or Admin) they still manage to get
spyware, trojans and viruses on the computer and I have to set aside a
night once each month to run a full scan and eradicate the buggers.
On Nov 10, 2007 1:57 PM, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Completely off topic but most (all?) Antivirus programs can be made to
run on a schedule. Even the freeware AVG which I use.
I don't schedule it because the scan engine won't run as a system
process. For the scan to touch all files on the computer it must be
run interactively from an account with administrator privileges. The
admin account is only active when logged in for admin tasks.
Everyone's daily use account, mine included, has only "User"
privileges. Just one of the techniques I learned to keep my Windows as
trouble free as possible. :-)
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From http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2006/06/02/614226.aspx
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Aaron, I totally agree with the point you were making. I speak as
someone who's a few months into the non-Admin experiment at my office,
and the the main stumbling-block in this has been the antivirus. My
employer has been a long-time devotee of a certain market-leading
consumer solution (starts with an 'N') because you can pick it up in
most shops and it 'just works'.
Well, not if you intend to be non-admin it doesn't. Its update feature
craps out under LU accounts, with no clear indication as to why. (I lost
count of how many support pages I waded through before finding
confirmation that the practise was unsupported.) I did my best to
overcome this with the aid of a Scheduled Task using Admin credentials,
but the updater's convoluted architecture thwarted this too.
I have lobbied hard against renewal of this crap software, and have been
permitted to trial a few alternatives. My experience thus far:
*** BitDefender Personal Edition, AVG Free, NOD32 Personal, Kaspersky
Personal, all happily run and update without apparent issues for
non-Admin. (NOD32 may be connected with a rise in dumprep.exe problems,
but I can't back that up.) Please note these are simply the findings of
a newbie sysadmin, no endorsement given or implied, etc. ***
For the person who asked about antivirus apps that a non-admin could
use, there's a starter. so far I haven't found any (apart from the 'N'
product) that do have issues, but it certainly would be interesting to
see all the big players evaluated on this criterion.
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