How Often Do You Rebuild Your Main Desktop Machine?

[Koenie]

I have so many machines I cant call any one of them the main one. None of these get rebuild unless there is a problem.
Probably my server hosting GBPVR is the main machine as all others depend on it (email, fileserver, GBPVR,...). This one gets rebuild every 6 months or so.

[Smoker]

im a stronger believer that nothing beats norton, i never get a virus/worm/trojan horse/whatever.

i know others that use the free scanners that sometimes do get a virus.

and if all i have to do is format my machine once a year, hey its good to do that anyway clear out all the crap.


and i never really left, just havent had anything to say gbpvr is still recording my tv (pretty old version though), but thats it and i dont watch much nz tv.

I have to agree with you reven... I've never gotten a threat.... yes I don't really care for how much resource norton takes.

Each year though I just use their tools to remove nortons and then have a registry cleaner that cleans out norton after I've uninstalled it. reboot and install it back in. good to go for another year.

[SuMo]

Does that work with WinXP 64bit edition? avast is abit of system hog and bugs me with useless popups like 'av database updated' all the time. :mad:

Although it's an AOL thing and I expected to get all sorts of AOL crap, it didn't
no messages (configurable) and no CPU hogging afaik.
I used Kaspersky till v.6 and this last one was a total pain in the @#$ because of al the warnings when installing or removing a prog.
The specs of Active Virus Shield say:
Active Virus Shield Feature Summary
* blablabla removed because of to much info
* Support Microsoft Windows XP x64

so I guess it does.

[McBainUK]

I can confirm it works with WinXP 64. Like you sumo I was expecting AOL crap but it sits there quietly and apparently it updates every hour silently.

Cool!

[K.S.]

fresh install with all needed crap on top, make a image & restore that once a year when it starts behaving wrong ;-)

[SuMo]

I can confirm it works with WinXP 64. Like you sumo I was expecting AOL crap but it sits there quietly and apparently it updates every hour silently.

Cool!

Glad you like it

[gEd]

>Approximately how often do you rebuild your main desktop machine?

Only when I need to - I don;t do it for the sake of it. Last time I re-installed was 3-4 years ago on my main rig.

NOD32 here - lean and mean. The latest Norton was such bloatware I couldn't cope with it.

NOD32
XP SP2 firewall behind router firewall
Tuneup utilities
periodic Spybot S&D scan