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On Mon, 10 May 2004 05:46:43 GMT, "Noozer" wrote:
Its really not necessary that he have an anti-virus program on his machine...nor necessary that he have any kind of real-time protection. As a matter of fact, installing such protection may slow down his machine considerably...depending on how you configure that software. If you are on broadband, you NEED realtime AV. The internet is so polluted out there and there are so many different ways to attach a machine that realtime AV and firewall software are a necessity these days. There is no distinction to being on broadband vs. dialup excpet percentage of time system is online, yet these days systems are scanned often enough that on dialup an insecurity would be found anyway. The same typical entry points, email and sometimes browser (or warez but that goes without saying) are same risk with or without broadband. If you mean open ports, the first line of defense is usually enough, any inexpensive router. If you NEVER download software and NEVER get email (and this includes online stuff as many of the new viruses just need you to see there webpage) and run Win95 then you MIGHT be able to stay safe... otherwise something will bite you in the ass eventually. Yet this is a very old system that is being questioned for upgrade due to sluggishness even before considering adding MORE software, overhead. When a system is too slow it might be better to just have antivirus software installed but not actively scanning, and make regular backups of anything important. Tpically a backup of OS and apps made bimonthly and documents in a single folder or partition on a more regular basis as warranted. |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 04:00:39 GMT, JT wrote:
On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:36:32 +1200, "~misfit~" wrote: Check the Intel timeline. Pentium 60 was the slowest http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm and ftp://download.intel.com/intel/intel...lect/timeline/ TimelineChron.pdf for a time line of products. http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium/manuals/ has links to the developers manuals. The Pentium 60/66 was a relatively short lived processor with a different socket (socket4 if I remember correctly) than the later processors. And they also ran at something like 5v, very hot and nowhere to go from there without cooking. Socket 5 I believe. Socket 5 was the same as socket 7, except it wasn't dual voltage. Would do classic Pentium 75-200, and overdrives but no MMX. JT Nope, socket 5 was physically different, and socket 7 was not inherantly dual-voltage, many boards accepted only "P54C" or lower chips that were all single, 3.3-3.5V chips. Notation of "P55" ( Pentium MMX) support corresponded to 2.8V support on socket 7. |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:38:40 +1200, "~misfit~"
wrote: Don't forget about the P60... Probably is best -to- forget that one! :-) I disagree. I've been trying to get a P60 and a P66 for my collection of older CPUs for ages. I have all the 486's, P1's and P-Pro's except those two. How much you wanna pay for postage? Have at least one or two P60 "somewere", maybe even a board for 'em. I keep meaning to throw all that old stuff out but being older, they're towards the bottom of the stacks and get thrown out last. |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 09:54:17 GMT, kony wrote:
On Mon, 10 May 2004 04:00:39 GMT, JT wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:36:32 +1200, "~misfit~" wrote: Check the Intel timeline. Pentium 60 was the slowest http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm and ftp://download.intel.com/intel/intel...lect/timeline/ TimelineChron.pdf for a time line of products. http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium/manuals/ has links to the developers manuals. The Pentium 60/66 was a relatively short lived processor with a different socket (socket4 if I remember correctly) than the later processors. And they also ran at something like 5v, very hot and nowhere to go from there without cooking. Socket 5 I believe. Socket 5 was the same as socket 7, except it wasn't dual voltage. Would do classic Pentium 75-200, and overdrives but no MMX. JT Nope, socket 5 was physically different, and socket 7 was not inherantly dual-voltage, many boards accepted only "P54C" or lower chips that were all single, 3.3-3.5V chips. Notation of "P55" ( Pentium MMX) support corresponded to 2.8V support on socket 7. Should have said "basically" the same http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/char/...Socket5-c.html http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/char/...Socket7-c.html forgot about the 1 extra pin in socket 5. And as it says, the Socket 7 was designed for voltage regulation needed for MMX, but not all manufacturers actually implemented it. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/char/...Socket4-c.html was the pentium 60/66 socket. Socket 5 processors would plug in to socket 7 motherboards. Socket 4 processors would only work in socket 4. JT |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Mon, 10 May 2004 05:46:43 GMT, "Noozer" wrote: Its really not necessary that he have an anti-virus program on his machine...nor necessary that he have any kind of real-time protection. As a matter of fact, installing such protection may slow down his machine considerably...depending on how you configure that software. If you are on broadband, you NEED realtime AV. The internet is so polluted out there and there are so many different ways to attach a machine that realtime AV and firewall software are a necessity these days. There is no distinction to being on broadband vs. dialup excpet percentage of time system is online, yet these days systems are scanned often enough that on dialup an insecurity would be found anyway. I'm not arguing this part. The connections are the same as far as the software goes. Speed doesn't make a difference in how likely you are to be attacked/infected. The difference is that with broadband the typical usage for the connection changes. The user actually uses the connection differently and this is where it becomes more likely to get a bad file or a port attack. The same typical entry points, email and sometimes browser (or warez but that goes without saying) are same risk with or without broadband. If you mean open ports, the first line of defense is usually enough, any inexpensive router. Routers that will deal with dialup are rare. SMC had (still has) one model that would dial out if the WAN connection was down, but I don't know what kind of functionality it offered through the dialup port. You also had to have an external serial modem for this, which most folks don't have. Software firewalls like Zonealarm (ick) will do the job, but they take overhead and when they break will they break open or closed? Software firewalls still have to get the data into the PC before it can processes it and I don't trust that process either. If you NEVER download software and NEVER get email (and this includes online stuff as many of the new viruses just need you to see there webpage) and run Win95 then you MIGHT be able to stay safe... otherwise something will bite you in the ass eventually. Yet this is a very old system that is being questioned for upgrade due to sluggishness even before considering adding MORE software, overhead. When a system is too slow it might be better to just have antivirus software installed but not actively scanning, and make regular backups of anything important. Tpically a backup of OS and apps made bimonthly and documents in a single folder or partition on a more regular basis as warranted. If realtime scanning affects performance noticably, then I'd agree. I know that human nature will cause the backups to lag and the scanning to be done less frequently than it should be, etc. so I prefer automatic processes. The only manual process should be removing your backups from the site on a regular basis... but at this point I don't think Grandpa is going to want to do this (or need to). Just make him aware that if anything on the PC is important, it should be copied elsewhere just in case. |
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Speed has little to do with it.
Most of this is answered in my reply to Kony... Why? You make an anti-virus program sound like the endall in data protection. Its not...and it was never intended to be. If more protection can be added with little hit to performance, then it really should be in place. There's no point crippling a PC just to add a bit more protection though. I've seen PC's with the XP firewall, McAfee firewall and ZoneAlarm all installed... that's just silly. And, eventually, you'll get a virus that will get thru...or spyware...or ? So its really not important to protect against those...at least not on an individual machine basis. It IS important, however, to be able to RECOVER from such an intrusion. Even if you backup daily, you could still lose 24 hours worth of productivity from a recovery. And who's to say that a recovery will totally repair the system? I remember when the Happy99 virus was alive and well... Folks would clean the virus and then have no internet connection because of missing Winsock files. You could restore a Ghosted image to get back to where you were and that would recover you to that point in time, but what if you've had a time delayed attack stored on your system for weeks... you probably just restored it to your system as well. Many folks run real-time protection...even when they're not connected to the Internet...and then complain about poor performance. Yup... Usually the same folks with 27 icons in their system try and not a clue what any of them are. Everyone should devise their own plan for data protection. But real-time protection is not necessary in every scenario...especially in this gentleman's case. Everything is a matter of balance. If protection can be added with minimal impact on performance, then it should be done. Adding more memory to his system to allow more protection isn't a bad suggestion, assuming memory can be found at a reasonable price. |
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On Mon, 10 May 2004 05:39:58 GMT, "Noozer" wrote:
...and why would someone in a McLaren been driving through a school zone anyhow??? Wow...like, they sure are breeding them stupid these days... *rolls eyes* -- Onideus Mad Hatter mhm ¹ x ¹ http://www.backwater-productions.net |
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kony wrote:
On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:38:40 +1200, "~misfit~" wrote: Don't forget about the P60... Probably is best -to- forget that one! :-) I disagree. I've been trying to get a P60 and a P66 for my collection of older CPUs for ages. I have all the 486's, P1's and P-Pro's except those two. How much you wanna pay for postage? Have at least one or two P60 "somewere", maybe even a board for 'em. I keep meaning to throw all that old stuff out but being older, they're towards the bottom of the stacks and get thrown out last. Whaddaya reckon it would cost to pst to New Zealand? How would you like to be paid for the postage? My email addy can be un-mung-ed. Cheers, -- ~misfit~ |
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"Onideus Mad Hatter" wrote in message news:gouv901fjo6nr7973fk1cl9brif2o0egks@farfoos... On Mon, 10 May 2004 05:39:58 GMT, "Noozer" wrote: ...and why would someone in a McLaren been driving through a school zone anyhow??? Wow...like, they sure are breeding them stupid these days... *rolls eyes* You're the one who put a McLaren into the school zone! |
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Noozer wrote:
"Onideus Mad Hatter" wrote in message news:gouv901fjo6nr7973fk1cl9brif2o0egks@farfoos... On Mon, 10 May 2004 05:39:58 GMT, "Noozer" wrote: ...and why would someone in a McLaren been driving through a school zone anyhow??? Wow...like, they sure are breeding them stupid these days... *rolls eyes* You're the one who put a McLaren into the school zone! Are you aware of the word "Rhetorical"? How about "Metaphor"? -- ~misfit~ |
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