Good Antivirus and firewall software for a slow ooooooooooold machine.....

[Noahtuck]

What would be a good software firewall and antivirus for running on an old 600mhz celron with a whopping 256mb of ramm
8)

So obviously it has to run with minimum use of resources, as there is not much to begin with

Thanks!

[aedipuss]

maybe the old avg free v7.5 - it only protects against email viri, but runs lighter than v8 which also has online protection.

[linyx]

Try the old free Kerio firewall; it works great

[Ethlred]

I was going to recommend the full AVG Internet Security but they just went to version 8. No more support for Windows 98. Needs a 1.2GHz CPU as well.

However the AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall:
Computer Hardware

* Intel Pentium 300 MHz
* 30 MB free hard drive space (for installation)
* 256 MB RAM available

Still won't go to Windows 98 anymore. Wants more memory than version 7 as well. The HD space is the same.

You can download a free trial and see if it fits your needs.

Of course if that ancient machine is still running on a pre-Windows 2000 OS then you would be better off trying Linxux. 600MHz is decrepit.