just extra wear and tear on the hdds... bah.. just cauz ur pagefile is large doesnt mean windows will fill it up. however, if a small pagefile is filled up and theres not enough, what happens? i think windows always tries to 'finish using' ram before using the pagefile, at least to an extent

save urself the trouble, just set max and min to 1gb and youre all set

heh... lets hope so. norton aint really favoured by many people here... even though its amazingly popular among the horde of users out there...

norton's live update sux. they only allow u to update once a week. unless u manually install the daily update (which is available through their website)

This post has been edited by HMMaster: May 31 2005, 01:58 PM

i don't think norton real time scan good, if compare with nod32 and kaspersky...

what norton do is the stupid backgroup script scanner, slow down computer but still effect by virus, many virus programmer like to atk norton... lolz!

norton i think is for beginner user only lar, if advance user here most of them nv use norton...

Kaspersky is good, always got new update, and not so high resource usage

hmmm hey, maybe u can check ur systems task schedule and change the frequency of norton's liveupdate?

cpkid i agree... when u know more and more stuff about computers, you'll run away from norton.
i dont know why, ive been 'purging' so many computers of viruses and spyware... even though their norton AV is the latest update, alot of viruses cannot be removed by it... the funny thing was it even entered the system in the 1st place...
ive clean their computers and installl MS antispyware [for its auto scanning] and mcafee for them... never hear from them again (which is good, cauz it means no more problesm )

agree,now my office PC become more and netwoek become "big" the norton is really suck! use AVG better than norton!
panda now got bulid in anti spyware which mean when we scan virus it also scan spyware:D

norton have the latest update but still effected by worm or spyware!!! why norton nv detect when they come? because if norton do that, then will no body buy his norton internet security liao...

NOD32 is the best laa..low resource usage and very protected.also win virus bulletin award.better u all try:)

Kaspersky is free ? or for free trial only after use few month gonna buy already ....

basically kaspersky is not free and u can download the free trial here:

http://www.kaspersky.com/downloads

there is a real time kaspersky web-scanner, which u can scan for free:

http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus

ya i agree on this.

before that i tried norton corp edition and i became fed up becoz i feel the program was hogging my pc. if compare to norton antivirus n norton corp edition maybe corp edition is slightly lighter.

I still like BitDefender 8 Professional Plus Antivirus

Now plan to get the Ori version. Where got sell ???

This post has been edited by vexus: Jun 1 2005, 11:16 PM

i use kaspersky.. yup kaspersky taking more resource than nod32, but the detection kaspersky is better then nod32.. imo

NOD32 is the best ....ive been using it....worms , spyware , virus cant easily effected

nonono....i mean, they only update the virus database for live update once a week.



Intelligent Updater = manual update

aiyo, dun quarrel here, use Nod32 or Kaspersky

oh oh, i get you now

hmmm i suppose when important definitions are necessary, they'll let u update, right?
muahahahha if not this norton really useless


i use mcafee

from my opinion Trend Micro PC Cillin is the way to get rid of worms

My support always on Sophos AntiVirus

I feel that Kaspersky Antivirus 5 set at Maximum protection is the best for the following reasons:

- Updates DAILY (sometimes a few hours got new update)
- Scans for ALL KINDS OF VIRUS (most antivirus softwares like Norton and McAfee only give you updates based on your regional settings)
- Has intelligent scan ability (dosent scan same file the next time u run scan unless its been modified, thus reducing scan time; unlike mcafee or norton which totally dosent scan certain file types cos they think its an uncommon virus target)
- Scans all files in all types of archives (eg. .zip , .cab, etc etc)
- Real time scan will scan all files in the folder automaticly as u open the folder, it does this in the background, this will stop viruses even before you open the file
- Has won the best antivirus software award many many times
- Held a competition where they challenged hackers and programmers to try and make a virus that defeats Kaspersky..... nobody sucseeded.

The only bad thing about it is, the real time scan sometimes causes computer start up to be slower, and also sometimes causes the opening of folders to be slower.

Another bad thing is, Kaspersky Antivirus and Zone Alarm Firewall tends to clash, this will cause your com to crash and it'll give you BSOD even in XP !! I dunno abt other ppl, but this happens to me, so now i use Kaspersky Antivirus 5.0 and Kaspersky Anti Hacker 1.7 (Firewall).