Great Antivirus

spike129 · 12-16-2008, 04:27 PM

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP IN ADVANCE!!!

My Powerbook G4 is running terrably slow and i think its a virus, malware, etc. I perfer not to spend money unless needed but are there any good programs for a POWERPC instead of Intel that i could use?

spike129 · 12-16-2008, 07:09 PM

I'm really sure that it gradually got worse and worse! It might be something else but any help appreciated!!!

sinclair_tm · 12-16-2008, 09:40 PM

How much free hard drive space do you have?

spike129 · 12-17-2008, 04:50 AM

47.9 out of 80gb and im running leopard

sinclair_tm · 12-17-2008, 03:21 PM

How much RAM and CPU speed?

spike129 · 12-17-2008, 04:45 PM

Processor: 1.72 GHz
RAM: 1GB DDR SDRAM

sinclair_tm · 12-17-2008, 11:38 PM

Open the Activity Monitor, you'll find it in your Utilities folder, and at the bottom there are some buttons, click on the System Memory one. There will be listed some info, what are the numbers next to Free, VM size, Page ins, Page outs, and Swap used?

spike129 · 12-19-2008, 07:39 PM

Free: 201.37 MB
VM Size: 35.87 GB
Page Ins: 300 MB
Page Outs: 80 KB
Swap Used: 3.67 MB

RobinT · 01-17-2009, 08:58 PM

AND?!?!?!?!?! This is exactly why I logged in today! HEY!

sinclair_tm · 01-17-2009, 10:35 PM

Hmm, could you give the same info please.

As for spike, it seems that more RAM would aid you. Also, how old is your Mac, and how many apps do you have open. Another thing is that hard drives do slow down the older they get, and being it seems your Mac is using a big chunk for VM, that could slow things down over all. Also, when was your last reboot?

12-16-2008, 04:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
spike129 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Indianaplois,IN Posts: 47 OS: Xp SP2, PS3, Wii	Great Antivirus THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP IN ADVANCE!!! My Powerbook G4 is running terrably slow and i think its a virus, malware, etc. I perfer not to spend money unless needed but are there any good programs for a POWERPC instead of Intel that i could use?

12-16-2008, 07:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
spike129 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Indianaplois,IN Posts: 47 OS: Xp SP2, PS3, Wii	Re: Great Antivirus I'm really sure that it gradually got worse and worse! It might be something else but any help appreciated!!!

12-17-2008, 04:50 AM	#4 (permalink)
spike129 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Indianaplois,IN Posts: 47 OS: Xp SP2, PS3, Wii	Re: Great Antivirus 47.9 out of 80gb and im running leopard

12-17-2008, 04:45 PM	#6 (permalink)
spike129 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Indianaplois,IN Posts: 47 OS: Xp SP2, PS3, Wii	Re: Great Antivirus Processor: 1.72 GHz RAM: 1GB DDR SDRAM

12-19-2008, 07:39 PM	#8 (permalink)
spike129 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Indianaplois,IN Posts: 47 OS: Xp SP2, PS3, Wii	Re: Great Antivirus Free: 201.37 MB VM Size: 35.87 GB Page Ins: 300 MB Page Outs: 80 KB Swap Used: 3.67 MB

01-17-2009, 08:58 PM	#9 (permalink)
RobinT Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Compton Posts: 1 OS: Mac OS X 10.5.6	Re: Great Antivirus AND?!?!?!?!?! This is exactly why I logged in today! HEY!