7201 - Those running it, what's new?

Captain Zero said:

I use a lot of them for testing, I'll put McAfee on, Norton (yuck), OneCare, Kaspersky and then Eset 4.1 x64.

This old machine has a 3.5" floppy and I've kept a pile of old disks that I used to collect viruses on. I put 20-30 on a disk and let them fight it out. I popped it into that Win7 machine and the drive grinds for about an hour. Great fun.

The rig is used as a honeypot, I disable the firewall and wait to see how long it takes to get infected. It's just a hobby of mine...

Hey Captain Zero in your opinion since your the Antivirus pro here. What the best for Windows 7 7201 X64 protection without bogging down the OS?

I use Eset NOD32 4 on Windows 7. It's the only anti virus I have used that doesn't bog the system down.

Orbital Shark said:

Avast! uses virtually nothing too

Half the size of NOD32 memory usage, lol.

Ah well. I like it, and I paid for it. Might as well use it.

Yeh, thats a reason I still run Windows 7. I like it. Now I'm just waiting for 7201 to break.. which it hasn't so far.

+1 for Avast 64

Also, Virtual Clone Drive from Slysoft works awesome with Win7 for mounting ISO files, plus, free is good!

Orbital Shark said:

I've noticed better memory usage in 7201 as i've normally got no memory left of my 768MB

I have noticed that also, but I'm crazy (or stupid, whatever you choose) to run 7201 as my main OS on my only PC.

7201-64bit works fine except microsoft's keyboard driver (win 7 beta) is not compatible with it. The keyboard driver works fine on 7100 and 7137.