Lighter, faster alternatives to the usual freeware AV.

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I use AVG, ZA, Spybot etc. But I'm finding them at bit slow these days and heavy on memory. Is there anything lighter and faster I can use instead. For Vista and XP.
 
avira antivir, light but actually does what it should - personal edition is free, premium edition currently offers 6 months free ride via PCW magazine CD...
 
Kaspersky is excellent and has a very small footprint and it's regular updated are great. The only annoyance is the awful sound it makes when it does find something!
 
Nod 32 v2.7 was very light on the system when I used it haven’t used v3 thou

Kaspersky isnt a system hog

Avira may be the best freebie out there again isnt a hog


malware progs, Superantispyware v4 is light on the system the free version is very light as its on demand only

But it all really depends on the spec of your system and if your windows install is healthy
 
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bledd. said:
avg + zonealarm are both utter cack

they cause more problems than they solve
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AVG causing problems?

List some of the issues you have had?

Or is it the case of you had one problem and then of course this means that avg is crap and no one should use it.
 
i use a combo of avast and spybot, i hardly notice its there (until avast pops a big blue box up saying its updated)
 
Nymins said:
AVG is only using 2.9mb for me here on XP32.
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Same. :D Quite nice that. :p

SentineL-X said:
Another shout for NOD32, amazing anti virus :)
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True. Depends if he wants to pay or not. :)

Sp00n said:
nod32 if you want to pay, clamwin if you dont.
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I've never used Clamwin. How good is it actually?

wush said:
Use nothing. Trust yourself and do an online based scan every once in a while :)
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Crikey mikey! :eek: Not sure I'd do that. Maybe on my PC but on the laptop my Mum uses, no way Jose Mourinho. :p
 
teaboy5 said:
AVG causing problems?

List some of the issues you have had?

Or is it the case of you had one problem and then of course this means that avg is crap and no one should use it.
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tons of false positives = crap

personally i don't use av at all anymore, if i did i'd pay for nod32, i just have read-only access to my media and have nothing important on my machine -not that i've had a virus since blaster anyway
 
Clamwin?

isn't it based off of clamav for *nix?

If so the realtime scanner isn't even into Beta yet i believe (and it was pretty unstable when i tried) granted the Windows version may have advanced further.

I vote Nod32 all the time, aint that expensive and well worth it (tried the full suite though, seemed pretty pants).

I tried AVG years ago, corrupted the boot record and gave a few false positives, turned me right off
 
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