1) I use Panda AV, which has not shown any resource hogging on my system. The only thing it auto-updates are the virus definitions. I vaguely recall having to turn off 'recommendations', but I only had to do that once and it has never turned them back on or hijacked my browser to direct me to a sales page, or whatever.
Avast is my emergency fallback AV suite, but I'm not at all happy with how intrusive it is out-of-the-box, nor how many ads it starting showing me prior to me getting fed up and switching to Panda. When my install notes for it include "find and shut off all the extra bullshit", there's a problem.
2) Powershell is your friend. I'm sure there are standalone things that do the same job, but, really, Powershell. We use it on our Windows boxen at work all the time for reading the tail end of log files, which I suspect is what you're using tail for
get-content "" | select -last
I love Powershell.
Edit: I feel I should add that you can script Powershell into a batch file and pass parameters to that, so you can make a "tail.bat" file that will mimic the tail command more easily, but there are a bunch of security-related gotchas which you have to address if you're gonna do that and that's sometimes more of a pain than it's worth. But it can be done if you'd rather just type "tail file.txt numlines" or something.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Avast is my emergency fallback AV suite, but I'm not at all happy with how intrusive it is out-of-the-box, nor how many ads it starting showing me prior to me getting fed up and switching to Panda. When my install notes for it include "find and shut off all the extra bullshit", there's a problem.
2) Powershell is your friend. I'm sure there are standalone things that do the same job, but, really, Powershell. We use it on our Windows boxen at work all the time for reading the tail end of log files, which I suspect is what you're using tail for
get-content "" | select -last
I love Powershell.
Edit: I feel I should add that you can script Powershell into a batch file and pass parameters to that, so you can make a "tail.bat" file that will mimic the tail command more easily, but there are a bunch of security-related gotchas which you have to address if you're gonna do that and that's sometimes more of a pain than it's worth. But it can be done if you'd rather just type "tail file.txt numlines" or something.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs