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Best virus software for low ram computer

I have a 5 year old dell inspiron laptop. it has 256MB of ram and I am running the verizon security suite on it. it is impossibly slow. Any suggestions for for virus software that runs ok on old computers?

(I had to put dell inspiron 1000 into the product field b/c the menu didnt have a selection for the 1100--but the actual model is an inspiron 1100).

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Try AVG
Avira

this antivirus softwares are free to use and they dont make your systems slow

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Dell inspiron 1100 processes slow
Hello and Welcome to FixYa!

Try re-installing your operating system (you can use System Recovery if your laptop is equipped with. But do make sure that you have all your important data back up to external mass storage media). Make sure that your laptop is virus free. If the problem still persists, I would suggest you to upgrade your Ram to a maximum of 512mb. If your system is equipped with 128 or 256mb of ram. Upgrade it to 512mb Pc2100 DDR SDRAM.

Have a nice day,

Concerned.

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I would highly recommend that you instead upgrade the ram memory on the laptop since it will give you a bigger performance increase than a new cpu or video card.

The machine only has 256MB of ram, get atleast 512MB or 1024 /1gb of ram and it will work much better.

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Yes you can, Do I recomend it, no, Why?

Windows easily uses up to 756MB of RAM to run the O/S alone but can run at a minimum of 512MB.

I have personally seen it run on as low as a 900Mhz processor, 256MB of RAM and on a 10 gig hard drive.

If you decide to install windows XP on the specs you describe above please note the following.

1. System will be very slow and have lengthy start up times.

2. Applications may crash or take a long time to open.

3. With all the updates for WinXP you will easily use 8 gigs for installing XP and its updates. Not to mention whatever software you will use/install.

4. On a system with those low specs, you probably have a low end video card whcih may result in: A. chooppy windows, screen freezing, system crashes and lock ups, low video graphics all around.


I would probably go with windows 2000 instead. If your bent on having XP, at least upgrade the RAM to as much as possible. Then install windows and only install the programs you really need, remove any other junk.

Hope this is of some help to you, good luck

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If you do not want to buy a complete security suite like Nornon internet security, or Macafee security sute you can buy either AVG or nod32. Install a firewall like Zonealarm or similar to integrate the antivirus protection. AVG takes less RAM than nod 32, otherwise performances are similar.

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Internet security is better, but it will also slow down the computer more.

If you have a good computer with at least 1 GB RAM, and CPU at least 1.6 GHZ intall Internet security. If the computer is slow or it is an old computer, then install antivirus only, and be more careful.

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