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……