Antivirii
OTOOS is a really good book, and I must say, Chapter 3 in particular has some great imagery. But, to the task at hand! Its well-known that various antiviruses (antivirii?) have different memory footprints, different scan speeds, different effectivness, etc ... but which is the best? Well, faithful readers, I present to you the somewhat perplexing graph below.
Here, the red line is under Windows Live OneCare, the blue line with no antivirus installed, the yellow line with Nod32, and the green line with VIPRE antivirus. That's right -- it ran *faster* under VIPRE than with no antivirus. My testing methodology was to do a reboot, wait five minutes, and run two benchmarks and use the best one. The benchmark was run with PerformanceTest 6.1 64-bit under High priority, changed from Windows Task Manager. I'm not sure why the NoAV score was so low -- I'm almost certain I remembered to change the priority, but that might be the culprit. In any case, the three antivirus lines speak for themselves, though -- VIPRE wins by a long shot.
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