I have been looking for a new anti virus [mainly looking at avg as an option] and was wondering what everyone here uses and their input on what they use. I'm looking for a light weight one that has nuts.
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I have been looking for a new anti virus [mainly looking at avg as an option] and was wondering what everyone here uses and their input on what they use. I'm looking for a light weight one that has nuts.
I use ESET Nod32. Runs pretty good, usually next to no problems, though some programs tend to dislike it. Uses about 90mb while it's in the background.
MSE and Avira also tend to be lightweight, though I don't have experience with those.
Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free and gets the job done.
Check out the following:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews
I use Avast personally, and it's always managed to catch anything horrible before it made it's way onto my computer xD
im not to happy about avast. sometimes when i do a full scan it still find something that passed trough the shields, or malwarebytes/adaware find thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Glytch
Microsoft Security Essentials(Formerly BitDefender) is one I highly recommend, it is light weight, fast and has picked up/cleaned everything I have thrown at it.
AVG on the other hand is slow, has a poor track record of virus removal and has fairly high memory usage.
woah seriously? Everytime I scan using Avast it never finds anything. So weird that things got through the shield though. Mine always blocks everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abhorsen
Decided to go with avg 2012 bought edition (friend had extra full version is why) So far so good, i have tested it for over an hour with just about anything i throw at it is instantly caught. I dont know why you said it requires a lot of memory, 50 aint much at all.
50mb for the main anti virus component, add in real time scans, the numerous shields, anti spam,etc and it adds up to a few hundred MB of ram.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redonkulous
Compared to the alternatives on the market it, it is quite bloated.