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Anti-virus that's light on resources DA 09-09-2005
Posted by DA on September 9, 2005, 4:27 pm
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Hello everyone!

I'm looking for recommendations on anti-virus software that I could use on
couple of older PIII XP Home PCs I have. Everything else I need (Internet
access and light word processing mostly) runs fast enough on these but
anti-virus and anti-spam alike. It seems that with the amount of virus
signatures all commercial packages are targeting, anti-viruses have become
the most resource-hungry application on one's PC. I personally have not
had a trouble-free anti-virus before (is there such thing?) Tried McAfee -
the PIII/512Mb RAM PC is slugging so much that I cannot open IE in less
than two minutes (no exaggeration here). The anti-spam component of McAfee
did a great job of hiding important messages from me for weeks (probably
worth its own thread) etc. Tried Panda - at least one or two times a day
PC hangs up ruining unsaved work. Tried Norton AV - all kinds of
networking issues galore.

So, am I looking for something that does not exist - current anti-virus
software that does not completely bring a PIII/512Mb RAM PC down?

Cheers!
DA

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Posted by Notan on September 9, 2005, 2:39 pm
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DA wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm looking for recommendations on anti-virus software that I could use on
> couple of older PIII XP Home PCs I have. Everything else I need (Internet
> access and light word processing mostly) runs fast enough on these but
> anti-virus and anti-spam alike. It seems that with the amount of virus
> signatures all commercial packages are targeting, anti-viruses have become
> the most resource-hungry application on one's PC. I personally have not
> had a trouble-free anti-virus before (is there such thing?) Tried McAfee -
> the PIII/512Mb RAM PC is slugging so much that I cannot open IE in less
> than two minutes (no exaggeration here). The anti-spam component of McAfee
> did a great job of hiding important messages from me for weeks (probably
> worth its own thread) etc. Tried Panda - at least one or two times a day
> PC hangs up ruining unsaved work. Tried Norton AV - all kinds of
> networking issues galore.
>
> So, am I looking for something that does not exist - current anti-virus
> software that does not completely bring a PIII/512Mb RAM PC down?

While I'm sure other posters have their favorites, I've been using
NOD32 (http://www.nod32.com).

Very good, and *very* low on resources.

Notan


Posted by DA on September 10, 2005, 12:47 pm
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Notan wrote:


> While I'm sure other posters have their favorites, I've been using
> NOD32 (http://www.nod32.com).

> Very good, and *very* low on resources.

Thank you, Notan. I'm going to give NOD32 a try. From what I've read in
this forum and alt.comp.anti-virus it seems to be (one of) the most suited
for resource-challenged PC.
Thanks again,
DA


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Posted by speeder on September 9, 2005, 7:36 pm
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On 9 Sep 2005 16:27:34 -0400, test_at_1-script_dot_com@foo.com (DA)
wrote:

>Hello everyone!
>
>I'm looking for recommendations on anti-virus software that I could use on
>couple of older PIII XP Home PCs I have. Everything else I need (Internet
>access and light word processing mostly) runs fast enough on these but
>anti-virus and anti-spam alike. It seems that with the amount of virus
>signatures all commercial packages are targeting, anti-viruses have become
>the most resource-hungry application on one's PC. I personally have not
>had a trouble-free anti-virus before (is there such thing?) Tried McAfee -
>the PIII/512Mb RAM PC is slugging so much that I cannot open IE in less
>than two minutes (no exaggeration here). The anti-spam component of McAfee
>did a great job of hiding important messages from me for weeks (probably
>worth its own thread) etc. Tried Panda - at least one or two times a day
>PC hangs up ruining unsaved work. Tried Norton AV - all kinds of
>networking issues galore.
>
>So, am I looking for something that does not exist - current anti-virus
>software that does not completely bring a PIII/512Mb RAM PC down?

There are others of course, but from personal experience I use AVG on
a P1 166MHz/98MB RAM comp and it works!


Posted by Ronald MacDonald on September 10, 2005, 10:37 am
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> On 9 Sep 2005 16:27:34 -0400, test_at_1-script_dot_com@foo.com (DA)
> wrote:
>
>>Hello everyone!
>>
>>I'm looking for recommendations on anti-virus software that I could use on
>>couple of older PIII XP Home PCs I have. Everything else I need (Internet
>>access and light word processing mostly) runs fast enough on these but
>>anti-virus and anti-spam alike. It seems that with the amount of virus
>>signatures all commercial packages are targeting, anti-viruses have become
>>the most resource-hungry application on one's PC. I personally have not
>>had a trouble-free anti-virus before (is there such thing?) Tried McAfee -
>>the PIII/512Mb RAM PC is slugging so much that I cannot open IE in less
>>than two minutes (no exaggeration here). The anti-spam component of McAfee
>>did a great job of hiding important messages from me for weeks (probably
>>worth its own thread) etc. Tried Panda - at least one or two times a day
>>PC hangs up ruining unsaved work. Tried Norton AV - all kinds of
>>networking issues galore.
>>
>>So, am I looking for something that does not exist - current anti-virus
>>software that does not completely bring a PIII/512Mb RAM PC down?
>
> There are others of course, but from personal experience I use AVG on
> a P1 166MHz/98MB RAM comp and it works!

I have used Norton and AVG, but have finally decided to settle with
Avast..... good all round protection, and it's extremely low on resources.




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