pushkarDighe
Member
Hi All,
I have Dell XPS 13 purchased in 2007 with Core Duo processor 2GHz and 2 GB ram originally. It was working great till 2012 when suddenly it started hanging randomly. Suddenly everything would just stop working even window start up menu would not come up and most of the time only hard boot worked. Restarting the problem would just come back. But still at times it used to work too fantastic which made me hard to just junk it away.
After digging for the issue it was confirmed that the culprit is McAfee and nothing would make it stop completely except uninstalling it. The laptop now has been upgraded to windows 10 with 4 GB RAM but still when McAfee kicks in, all just fails:sad:.
My new laptop is i3, 2 GHz with 4 GB ram and has same McAfee version installed but there is no negative impact.
I have read in many post how people have re-purposed old machines as NAS servers, Media players etc. But what Antivirus do they use. No antivirus is not a good solution unless that machine is going to be 100% standalone with guarantee that no external device will be ever connected...is that even possible today???
The one option I have is Windows Defender what comes builtin with Windows 10 and is recommended by Microsoft. Is that reliable?
I am not so much for Linux as Windows offer solutions and capabilities which I am comfortable with & desire.
Any suggestions on Windows Defender, can it be relied upon? Or should I go for something else?
Thanks
PushkarDighe
I have Dell XPS 13 purchased in 2007 with Core Duo processor 2GHz and 2 GB ram originally. It was working great till 2012 when suddenly it started hanging randomly. Suddenly everything would just stop working even window start up menu would not come up and most of the time only hard boot worked. Restarting the problem would just come back. But still at times it used to work too fantastic which made me hard to just junk it away.
After digging for the issue it was confirmed that the culprit is McAfee and nothing would make it stop completely except uninstalling it. The laptop now has been upgraded to windows 10 with 4 GB RAM but still when McAfee kicks in, all just fails:sad:.
My new laptop is i3, 2 GHz with 4 GB ram and has same McAfee version installed but there is no negative impact.
I have read in many post how people have re-purposed old machines as NAS servers, Media players etc. But what Antivirus do they use. No antivirus is not a good solution unless that machine is going to be 100% standalone with guarantee that no external device will be ever connected...is that even possible today???
The one option I have is Windows Defender what comes builtin with Windows 10 and is recommended by Microsoft. Is that reliable?
I am not so much for Linux as Windows offer solutions and capabilities which I am comfortable with & desire.
Any suggestions on Windows Defender, can it be relied upon? Or should I go for something else?
Thanks
PushkarDighe