What Anti Virus for HTPC

easyrider · 3 Apr 2009 at 13:03

Now I have been running Sophos but the updates have been flaky so I downloaded Avast pro after a search on here and it crashes my VCE.

When I play a DVD from within media Browser about 5 mins in the video just hangs and I have to restart VCE.

So I figured I would uninstall Avast and see what happens.

Well it was the culprit.

Videos played smooth and not one crash.

So my question is what small but powerful antivirus software could I use for my HTPC.

I don't want a resource hogging AV

Obviously I want to avoid trying loads of different ones and filling my registry with pap.

Now I apologise for this question in some respects but my HTPC is used in a different way.Its connected to the net 24/7 but only for downloading metadata etc... I hardly browse the net on it.

is AVG OK still?

Thanks

easy

easyrider · 3 Apr 2009 at 13:16

wolvers69 said:
Yeah I use AVG on all of my machines.

Downloading metadata?!..............etc............yeah whatever

Of course.

After all the money spent on my home cinema I'm hardly going to watch a downloaded MKV file! :eek:

easyrider · 3 Apr 2009 at 15:51

neil_g said:
ive got avast on my HTPC with no issues.

id check that its not on-access scanning something that would effect media center and/or playback.

Yeah checked that option and disabled it.

It only stopped crashing and hanging dvd playback once I uninstalled avast.

Shame really as its a nice GUI and that

easyrider · 3 Apr 2009 at 23:52

marscay said:
like most ppl can tell the difference

Dunno

Its up to them

easyrider · 4 Apr 2009 at 00:06

Fire Wizard said:
The two anti-virus products that seem to be fairly light on resources are Avast and Avira.

Thanks for the input

Avast: as stated in OP crashed my VCE

Avira Ill take a look

easyrider · 4 Apr 2009 at 00:23

Reinstall was the same.

Avira ill take a look