Actually, loading 2 virus programs may cause other problems. Most virus
programs do not like other ones running at the same time. They may give
false alerts.

That aside, my McAfee does not take up enough resources to warrant not
staying protected (4%-4%-1%). It only will take getting one bad virus to
convince you.
The problem with checking for virus only when a floppy is inserted or an
unknown executable and/or doc (virus can attach themselves to more than just
*.exe files) file is opened is remembering to do so and if you only do it
infrequently...even more chance to forget. And like the dreaded human virus,
it can only take one unprotected act to catch it. (It used to be "it only
may take once to get pregnant, but that usually does not kill...but I have a
good friend that this happened to...thank God it was pregnant and not the
other. Likewise with the puter.)

Like I have said, with my normal loaded programs, I am at 55%-55%--76%
resources and find no problems running any addtional programs. The only time
I run into resource problems is when browser the web with mutltiple windows
and because of memory leaks, my resource will eventually die.
Closing~all~MSIE windows will return me back to the original state of
resources minus about 10% for each time this has occurred. So usually after
such a situation, I reboot.

Daniel Wysocki
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>
> >  I have 2 virus programs that load up on
> >a restart.
>
>
> Susan,
>
> That is the main reason that your resources are so low.  Disable one if
> not both virus programs and you should see a big jump in the available
> resources.
>
> IMHO, most people do not need to constantly run virus software.
> The two primary methods of getting a virus are by downloading an
> executable (a program) from the  internet OR by inserting a floppy disk
> into your PC.  So if you are not downloading lots of EXE files from the
> 'net and you are not using floppy disks of questionable origin, then you
> don't need to run the virus scanners all the time.  Just activate them
> when you plan to download from the 'net and turn them off again when done.
> Same thing applies to floppies.
>
> Unless you have kids.  In that case keep one virus program running at all
> times. <grin>
>  >>
>
>I do turn one of the virus programs off, but I do keep McAfee running.  I
will
>disable it like you said until I download something off the net.  Thanks
for
>the information.
>
>Susan Hays
>
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