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Enhancing Desktop and Laptop Security Performance with Disk Defragmentation

Overview Security is vital, and so is the performance of that security technology. Faster detection of new threats means faster elimination. Using real-world scenarios, this study presents the impact of fragmentation on the performance of security scans from the most popular anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions on the market today. Read this paper from Diskeeper Corporation to find out just how much faster you can realize full security on your systems.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Diskeeper	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus, Security Management, Windows XP, Hard Drives, Windows Vista

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