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To: Gottfried who wrote (14202)	12/22/2000 11:54:52 AM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

hi gott if you watch closely, you'll note that your recycle bin fills up with discarded defs after an update. and the fragmentation increases also. i'm glad to hear lu did what it is supposed to do for you. i'm just very pleased to have the updated protection. this seems like a special time of year for malicious activities, be they viruses or hacker's intrusion attempts. just trying to keep the playing field level.... :) mark

To: Gottfried who wrote (14202)	12/22/2000 12:00:52 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110652

A while back, someone posted that Crucial was selling RAM at great prices. I don't move fast, quite some time went by before I placed my order. Meanwhile, the price dropped further. Now I have plenty of memory, in my computer at least. I also use Norton SystemDoctor, the row of meters, and interestingly enough, they report my Swap File size as zero, and my Cache used as zero as well. Now I can look and see I have a swap file, and it's 50,000 bytes. Do you, or anyone else, know how to check cache sizes manually? Or for that matter, can any light be shed on my zero mystery? Cheers, PW. P.S. My memory thingy was called a SODIMM. Any idea what this means? Silly Old Dame Installing More Memory?

To: Gottfried who wrote (14202)	12/22/2000 4:18:43 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

gott more on discarded 'old' virus defs.... a while ago i booted into win98se to install the 12/20 defs there. but before doing so, i totally emptied the protected files from the recycle bin. after installing the new defs, i rechecked the bin. there were 315 files there. a quick perusal of their filenames revealed things like naveng, navex and virscan. so there appears to be a degree of 'out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new activity whenever we do an update. fwiw.... :) mark