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Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:12AM from the tread-lightly-stomp-hard dept.

New submitter Bauermlb writes "I service computers for retired folks in my community, often older machines with modest speed (2 GHz Centron) and modest memory (512 MB). Adding AVAST to one of these machines slows it to a crawl. Any recommendations for a light-duty antivirus program with a low overhead? (These people do not tend to surf 'dirty' sites.)"

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Centron? (Score:3, Interesting)

by operagost ( 62405 ) writes: on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:21AM (#44295751) Homepage Journal

Sempron, Celeron?
And if you have only 512 MB of RAM, you don't have an older machine-- you have an OLD machine!

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Re:Microsoft Security Essentials (Score:4, Interesting)

by cyber-vandal ( 148830 ) writes: on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:39AM (#44295985) Homepage

Will it still be available for XP after 8th April 2014?

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