re: spybot and ad-aware
Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 9:59 pm
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Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
As both programs tend to use almost 100% of the available processor bandwidth,
there would be little or no advantage in running both at the same time from a processor
point of view. It would also add a lot of task switching overhead.
Running both at the same time does cause some disk drive thrashing which will
slow down the whole process. This will produce a noticeable slowdown. Same type of
thing happens when you try to run a disk drive virus scan at the same time.
So you would be better off not to run them at the same time. It also helps
to run the Disk CleanUp utility first so that un-needed files are deleted first and
not scanned. You can always start one and do some browsing the Internet or checking
e-mail while it runs in the background.
- Written in response to:
- spybot and ad-aware (t-bone: Thursday, October 28, 2004 at 8:21 pm)
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