VIRUS ALERT!

[Dr. Mario]

Oh well. Even the up-to-date antivirus is just enough to save your ass, leaving e-mails alone being dug up by AV, so there's no reason to worry. (I'm using Kaspersky AV on Windows XP x64 and a custom AI-based AV on my GO64 OS.)

As an experienced hacker, I recommend that you update your AV daily.

[Smokey]

Auto-update and auto-fullscan... Lovely things... ^_^

[Dr. Mario]

It helps. Also, for much faster "search and destroy" operation, use a larger RAM, because AV will be likely to have a larger encrypted "to-do" lists, mostly to relax the CPU of task-intense loads. Minimum of 512MB RAM will do fine.

[Smokey]

Oh, i only have 4GB... ^_^

[Red-Machine]

I just upgraded the ME machine to 512, runs a lot smoother now.

[Dr. Mario]

Should be good enough.

[Smokey]

Yep, even XP will run fairly smoothly on 512MiB, although she could also do with 1GiB....

But we were talking ME, and she'd run great on 512MiB...

[Dr. Mario]

Yeah. Well, if ME is to be on 4GB or larger banks without crashing, overhauls in EMM386 and HIMEM will be required.

[Smokey]

Yep, but that's with all 32-bit OSes... Or in case of a well written one it'll just ignore the RAM it can't adress...

[Dr. Mario]

Sometimes, ME will simply convulse by the unaddressable RAM. It's a well-known unstable OS, though.

[Red-Machine]

I've had no problems.  Tho it can only identify 511MB of the ram I put in it.

Strangely DXDiag reports 510MB...

[Dr. Mario]

Exactly. 512MB is all you need without her baring the teeth.

[Smokey]

And you ususally lose 1 or 2 MB due to... heck i don't know but it usually is like that...

[Dr. Mario]

To the UMB area of ME's MS-DOS kernel, of course, on the RAM memory. UMB is the area that Emuii-san (ME-chan) can't touch without crashing.

[Smokey]

Oh, right... completely forgot about that... Old windows works as a glorified DOS-shell...