Re: Do I need to worry about viruses and defragmentation?
- From: "Michael Haney" <thezorch@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 16:33:48 -0500
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM, markfpyles <markfpyles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone:
I was just wondering since I am just coming off of a windows machine whether
or not I need to have some type of anti-virus software installed and also if
I need to worry about defragmentation. Thanks.
No and no :-)
(the fine print)
You can of course accidentally forward a virus without knowing it and
it will infect the person you sent it to still...
And, if you run a very full harddrive (say over 95% full) for a length
of time you can actually start to have some fragmentation because the
system just doesn't have enough room to keep things tidy.
(end the fine print)
Correct, the way EXT3 works prevents file fragmentation or at least
minimizes it to some degree unlike NTFS which has a high degree of
developing file fragmentation. I usually have to defrag my Vista
laptop at least once a week or it starts to really slow down. Darn
you Micro$oft and your crappy OS!
Probably the most shocking thing to me is that files on an NTFS
partition which I haven't used in a long time and were defragmented
suddenly show up as fragmented when I run O&O Defragmenter
Professional in XP. How the in the holy heck can a file that's hardly
ever accessed and never written to end up being fragmented?
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