Re: Trojan in CONTENT:IE5

From: Brian (Brian_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/27/05


Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:37:01 -0800

Many thanks for that... the old setting was 61MB

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> Unfortunately, Microsoft uses a percentage of space as a cache. However, with Today's large
> hard disks this becomes very wasteful and can actually decrease performance rather increase
> performance which is the purpose of the cache.
>
> I strongly suggest a cache size of ~10MB. Anything else is counter productive.
>
> Go to;
> Start --> settings --> control panel --> internet options --> settings
>
> Then change the size of the cache to ~10MB.
> Other benefits would be; faster check disks, faster defragmentation, increased usable disk
> space and faster anti virus "On Demand" scans.
>
> --
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> "Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7C7F97AF-E921-4BD6-9551-04B385B14405@microsoft.com...
> | Thanks, that's now sorted. However, I had to also tick a box to delete the
> | off line contents before the Trojan could be removed. Quite handy, because it
> | also removed a large number of useless files in the process.
> |
>
>
>



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