Help my scanner is slowing my computer down …..
So i thought this was interesting, Yesterday at church which for those of you who dont know i run a get your computer fixed evening to where if people in the church cannot afford to get their computers fixed they can bring it to us. We then take and clean them out. As you can see in the past ustream live vids we do that and manage to have fun at the same time.
But i was working on a machine last wednesday where the user had made a claim that the machine was slowing down periodically. We did a number of cleanups on the machine for both viruses and spyware and found absolutely nothing. We do these scans periodically in an application called linux. Runs the apps that we need from a third party disc.
We started up xp and it must’ve been over 20 min it took the machine to start up. The machine itself was an intel core duo 2.4ghz or something like that. So my thought was the machine itself was powerful enough to start up quicker then this. By the time it got into xp i noticed the machine was loaded down and i mean just packed with scanners. It had avg, norton, macaffe, spyware doctor, spybot, adaware, and more. Wow so i called them up and we began removing the ones not needed. Everytime you load a computer down with a scanner i dont care whether its a pc or a mac it eats up ram and causes your machine to slow down. FYI guys they make norton for mac to. But anyways my point is max you only need one scanner maybe two but dont load your pc or mac down with a bunch of scanner apps.
When you do a virus scan or spyware scan it is always best to have it going when you are not using the computer. If you use the computer and try a scan expect the computer itself to slow down. Unless you have a significant amount of memory. For example a lot of my computer support customers tell me that spyware doctor is a major resource hog. Honestly its simple, leave the scan going when you go to the supermarket or run an errand somewhere and by the time you get home the scan is done.
Well thats my thoughts on virus and spyware resource hogs. Tell me people if you have any input just leave a comment below …..