F-Secure slows system down?

[Francis Marsden]

I have a win xp home system with 3 gig processor and 1 gig of ram. Will
running F-Secure antivirus and antispyware and firewall slow down my system?

[Ian JP Kenefick]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:36:44 GMT, "Francis Marsden" <fake@fake.fake>
wrote:

>I have a win xp home system with 3 gig processor and 1 gig of ram. Will
>running F-Secure antivirus and antispyware and firewall slow down my system?
>

*ALL* antivirus software will slow your system in one way or another.
F-Secure will have a slightly bigger hit because of it uses multiple
engines. With a gig of ram and 3GHz processor it wont be that much
though.
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Regards,
Ian Kenefick
www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

[Alan]

Francis Marsden wrote:
> I have a win xp home system with 3 gig processor and 1 gig of ram. Will
> running F-Secure antivirus and antispyware and firewall slow down my system?
>
>
Charter Communication provides the f-Secure antivirus and
firewall product to all its cable users at no charge (Note I did
not say spyware.). It appears to be the F-Secure Internet
Security 2005 product. I have it running on a Dell PC using Win
XP Home on a wireless LAN with 512MB of ram, almost 3 GB
processor and have not seen any significant degradation in
performance like I have observed with Symantec's products. In
fact, I intend to load it on another PC as Charter provides 3
licenses.