Best antivirus ??

marc2003 · 30 Jun 2014 at 12:27

Luke_Bowman said:
Just me that doesn't use AV?

nope.

darael · 30 Jun 2014 at 12:39

Lartyconshayo said:
Eset smart security IMO. About 30 quid for the year and nice light footprint.

I would have agreed with this a while back, but now I'm even finding it hard to convince myself ESET has a "nice light footprint".

As I look at my task manager now, ESET Smart Security v7 shows a usage of around 107MB! :eek:

marc2003 · 30 Jun 2014 at 12:45

i wouldn't worry about ram usage. adblock plus for firefox uses at least 80MB but that's a price well worth paying.

Stoner81 · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:50

darael said:
I would have agreed with this a while back, but now I'm even finding it hard to convince myself ESET has a "nice light footprint".

As I look at my task manager now, ESET Smart Security v7 shows a usage of around 107MB!

With that being said how much RAM does your PC have? 107MB is a drop in the ocean with people having 8GB or more RAM these days. I still use ESS and refuse to use anything else.

Stoner81.

Duke · 30 Jun 2014 at 17:28

Stoner81 said:
With that being said how much RAM does your PC have? 107MB is a drop in the ocean with people having 8GB or more RAM these days. I still use ESS and refuse to use anything else.

Stoner81.

96MB here, nothing in the grand scheme of things

Elevon · 30 Jun 2014 at 17:30

Duke said:
96MB here, nothing in the grand scheme of things

Use a light Linux distro ,you don't need an AV on Linux

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darael · 30 Jun 2014 at 17:59

Stoner81 said:
With that being said how much RAM does your PC have? 107MB is a drop in the ocean with people having 8GB or more RAM these days. I still use ESS and refuse to use anything else.

Stoner81.

I have 4GB of RAM, agreed it can easily absorb the 100MB or so. But it's harder to recommend ESET ESS to other users with 1GB of RAM, when you know full well it will gobble up 10% of their RAM.

Elevon · 30 Jun 2014 at 18:34

darael said:
I have 4GB of RAM, agreed it can easily absorb the 100MB or so. But it's harder to recommend ESET ESS to other users with 1GB of RAM, when you know full well it will gobble up 10% of their RAM.

My Avast is using 2.5mb and 14.3mb for all its services in Task Manager so virtually zero.