LAB 1017 - What Price Protection

Performance Impact of Anti-Virus Programs on DSOs
LeCroy Application Brief No. LAB 1017

What Price Protection
Performance Impact of Anti-Virus Programs on DSOs
Most of the mid to high range
digital oscilloscopes, available
from all digital storage oscillo-
scope (DSO) manufacturers, have
over the last few years started to
be based upon versions of Micro-
soft’s Windows Operating Sys-
tem. This brings huge benefits to
DSO users, including connectivity
that wasn’t imaginable using the
proprietary embedded operating
systems on which DSOs used to
be based. It does come with a
downside, that with a reasonable
level of care can be easily man-
aged, the threat of virus infection.

Microsoft’s hugely successful
Windows OS has attracted a Figure 1 A typical antivirus softw