T Bell
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Re: Protecting a Win?
Yes B, this is the thread I was looking for »Non-sucky firewall for 9x?
So far the pc is chugging along nicely with AVG and Zone Alarm (2.6). I installed Spybot, but skipping Teatimer because of the pop-ups more than anything else. I want things running as transparent as possible and with little or no user intervention. Looks like Zone Alarm will be popping up now and then. I'll tell him when in doubt, don't. It's running with 81% free resources which is okay for that pc.
I was considering dropping a stick of RAM in there and letting it be a surprise. A little belated Christmas present. 
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B
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I do hope you deselected "Show the alert popup window" and disabled all ZoneLabs update checking. Otherwise the user will get hassled by passing worms and by ZA advertising.
The thing with Spybot is that you'll need to pop in every couple of months to update, re-immunize, and/or scan. Have fun.
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Reverend Ike
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said by T Bell  :I was considering dropping a stick of RAM in there and letting it be a surprise. A little belated Christmas present. That was the first thing I thought of when reading your first post - relatively inexpensive and would give the system a bit of breathing room.
One of my systems is a Win98se box that currently has 256MB RAM, but previously ran fine with 64MB and ZAF 2.6, and AVG 7 and SpywareGuard resident. If your neighbor's browsing habits are conservative enough, he might be able to get away with using an on-demand anti-trojan program (or periodic online scans), to avoid the overhead of a resident anti-trojan. But no harm in trying BOClean first, to see what happens ... |
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T Bell
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said by B :I do hope you deselected "Show the alert popup window" and disabled all ZoneLabs update checking. Otherwise the user will get hassled by passing worms and by ZA advertising. The thing with Spybot is that you'll need to pop in every couple of months to update, re-immunize, and/or scan. Have fun. -- B Yes B, I disabled the update checking, and the pop-up window.
I may set Spybot and Adaware to run scans as weekly Scheduled tasks. I have another two weeks before he gets out of rehab for the knee, so I have time to "tinker" and fine-tune
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Mei Guo Ren
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Check which chipset is on the motherboard. With 64MB, i'm suspicious that it is an Intel 430TX-based board. These are typically found with original Pentium 233MHz and slower. They are also very picky about memory--does it use SIMMs (EDO memory) or DIMMs (SDRAM memory)?
The 430TX chipset has a "feature"-- if you install more than 64MB of RAM, the L2 cache (which is on the board, either hard-wired or a separate dimm-like module) is *disabled.* So installing RAM above 64MB can actually hurt system performance. It's a tradeoff--sometimes it's worth the L2 hit, sometimes it isn't.
If it's using a VIA Apollo or other chipset of the same era, it should be fine with more RAM without paying the L2 cache penalty.
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T Bell
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1 edit | said by Mei Guo Ren :Check which chipset is on the motherboard. With 64MB, i'm suspicious that it is an Intel 430TX-based board. These are typically found with original Pentium 233MHz and slower. They are also very picky about memory--does it use SIMMs (EDO memory) or DIMMs (SDRAM memory)? The 430TX chipset has a "feature"-- if you install more than 64MB of RAM, the L2 cache (which is on the board, either hard-wired or a separate dimm-like module) is *disabled.* So installing RAM above 64MB can actually hurt system performance. It's a tradeoff--sometimes it's worth the L2 hit, sometimes it isn't. If it's using a VIA Apollo or other chipset of the same era, it should be fine with more RAM without paying the L2 cache penalty. You're losing me here, but glad you brought it up as it was my next question. Will this help?
It's a P2, Intel MMX (Celron 400 MHz); 64 MB SyncDRAM. I checked in SysInfo, but not sure where to look.
I'll check back later this evening. Thank you. |
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Mei Guo Ren
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1 edit | you should be good to go-- probably the 440FX or similar P2 chipset; max ram should be at least 768MB, and PC66 or PC100 *should* work with it. 440FX could use EDO SIMMs or SDRAM DIMMs; some even had slots for either but you shouldn't mix and match. You can check www.crucial.com if you know the make /model number or the chipset-- there are devices in Device Manager that should give you a clue, typically the description associated with System components or the Hard Drive controllers.
BTW, Sun Java before the _06 release has a nasty exploit.
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