hey guys i hv an old acer lappy p-III 800mhz with 10gb hard disk n 128 mb ram.....i dont want to sell it as it is fetching a nil price in the second hand markt.....my question is which is the best os and antivirus solution for it......i want to use tht pc for browsing n downloading.......plzzz advice....
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antivirus installation on an old lappy.....
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Operating System - I recommend Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 installed. It's probably the most user friendly OS you'll find that doesn't take up too many resources and can be tweaked to perfection.
AntiVirus - If you want performance packed with good security features, then you're gonna have to go with NOD 32.
I'm with whs on the one, XP Pro is a very good OS, but back when it first hit the market, it was known as a "Memory Hog" so I stuck with window 98 until ram got cheaper, I think the minimum reqirement for XP is 128 so it'll run windows fine, but not much else. I would personally go with ubuntu linux, I use it as a second OS, the unix commands are completely different than DOS, but you'll find the ubuntu help site will tell you exactly what you need to know, pretty easy even for a linux newbie like me, and it only uses about half the resources that XP does. As far as the antivirus I have no room to talk because I'm constantly in battle with a virus or some kind of malware, but thats just another reason to get linux, most (I would say about 90%) of viruses arnt made to attack Linux, so anti virus software isnt as important
If you stick with the Windows route, I'd pitch in my vote for AVG - aside from being free it seems to be the least resource heavy (in my experience). Something like Norton or McAfee will make that laptop crawl.
And Ubuntu would be perfectly fine on that laptop, tho if it has built in wireless (I'm guessing not but hey you never know) that can be a slight hassle. With the LiveCD you can always give it a try and if you don't like it, nothing lost.
yes it is, Ubuntu is debian based, it's the first one on here: http://free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afl
There's really no reason to run antivirus software on a Linux box, unless you are scanning stuff there before transferring it to Windows.
At the very least, you absolutely don't need real-time protection on Linux. Personally I use the clamwin command line antivirus to scan files I've downloaded before transferring them to my Windows box.
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