lightweight anti-virus

• noob321

  25 Aug 10, 12:00

  i am looking for a lightweight antivirus for my old computer.

  looking for one that is as lightweight as possible, eat as little memory as possible, hog as little computer resources as possible.

   

  thanks

• Mountain Dew

  26 Aug 10, 14:02

  So there's heavy-weight antiviruses? They eat lots of computer memory and hog lots of computer resources?

• Mountain Dew

  27 Aug 10, 19:51

  Speaking of anti-virus, there's so many brands available how to know which is the best?

  Which company anti-virus is good?

   

• Wireless-

  27 Aug 10, 20:22

  Since its an old computer, its best if u dun purchase an av. I suggest free ones like avira antivirus or malwarebytes

• Mountain Dew

  27 Aug 10, 21:07

  Originally posted by Wireless-:

  Since its an old computer, its best if u dun purchase an av. I suggest free ones like avira antivirus or malwarebytes

  
  If buying for new com buy which brand?

• Wireless-

  28 Aug 10, 22:08

  Originally posted by Mountain Dew:

  
  If buying for new com buy which brand?

  Kaspersky

• fudgester

  28 Aug 10, 22:25

  Originally posted by Mountain Dew:

  So there's heavy-weight antiviruses? They eat lots of computer memory and hog lots of computer resources?

  Norton is notorious for being a resource hog.

  I recommend going for avast. It's free and resource-light.

• TTFU

  28 Aug 10, 22:31

  Nod32

• Potong

  29 Aug 10, 00:16

  Comodo Antivirus and Firewall.

  Pick the combo install package if you want to run both

  (some people install only the AV or the FW and realise they can only run one at a time if they download and install the wrong package)

  Its free. Lightweight on system resources.

   

  Geekspeak:

  Comodo creates 'sandboxes' of all running programs and alerts you if fishy stuff happens to your registry. Sandboxes are controlled environments where you can run programs and are unsure of their impact to your system. If anything happens it doesn't spillover to your system and the sandbox can be destroyed anytime.

  Sandboxing is excellent for people who torrent random fishy files online and are unsure of their impact. Or who know what they're doing and want extra protection. This is for you.

  They also have secure DNSing for those of you who know enough about DNSes and know how to optimize that.

  # would love if comodo had a corporate client available. it detects stuff slipping through even corporate anti-viruses/anti-malware. An excellent safety net, even as a secondary AV program.

• kenn3th

  18 Sep 10, 11:04

  What I suggest would be AVG or Windows Security Essentials.  Both of which are excellent free anti virus alternatives.

  I chanced upon a review on a magazine comparing paid software with it's free alternatives and Windows Security essentials came ahead, being able to detect and isolate virus packages that were on a severe scale.

  In that test, Norton succumbed, and allowed the installation of  a rogue software.

  Down side is it takes long to scan. Time of scan does not reduce with more usage. 

• Call4ljw

  18 Sep 10, 17:00

  A little weird to be replying to an inactive topic lol.

   

  Anyway, unless you're running a business, you wouldn't need an anti-virus.

• kenn3th

  19 Sep 10, 08:10

  Under what impression you are in that anti virus and spyware are not needed? 

   

• Call4ljw

  19 Sep 10, 08:56

  Originally posted by kenn3th:

  Under what impression you are in that anti virus and spyware are not needed? 

   

  "An antivirus is only as good as its signature" i believe you heard of this before.

  So definitely not for realtime protection. A virus "could" destroy you even before you have a chance to remove it.

  Products like Sandboxie are more useful realtime.(Just elaborating)

• kenn3th

  19 Sep 10, 09:19

  Originally posted by Call4ljw:

  "An antivirus is only as good as its signature" i believe you heard of this before.

  So definitely not for realtime protection. A virus "could" destroy you even before you have a chance to remove it.

  Products like Sandboxie are more useful realtime.(Just elaborating)

  I beg to differ. The anti virus is as good as it's signature, yes. 

  Now even free Anti viruses alternatives have real time and zero day malware protection. What is does when it detects a zero day malware threat, it isolates it first, listing it as harmful till new definitions updates it. 

   

• Call4ljw

  19 Sep 10, 10:46

  Originally posted by kenn3th:

  I beg to differ. The anti virus is as good as it's signature, yes. 

  Now even free Anti viruses alternatives have real time and zero day malware protection. What is does when it detects a zero day malware threat, it isolates it first, listing it as harmful till new definitions updates it. 

   

  The zero day malware protection is quite useless.

  I read on another website that good programs get quarantined.

• kenn3th

  19 Sep 10, 15:10

  Originally posted by Call4ljw:

  The zero day malware protection is quite useless.

  I read on another website that good programs get quarantined.

  Everyone can be a google and keyboard expert reading up on things to sustain their argument, saying Zero day malware protection is useless.  

  Afterall, it only takes google and a keyboard to do that. 

  They then fail to realize, IPS runs on real time protection and Zero day malware principles too. 

   

• Call4ljw

  19 Sep 10, 23:44

  Originally posted by kenn3th:

  Everyone can be a google and keyboard expert reading up on things to sustain their argument, saying Zero day malware protection is useless.  

  Afterall, it only takes google and a keyboard to do that. 

  They then fail to realize, IPS runs on real time protection and Zero day malware principles too. 

   

  I meant the zero day protection of antivirus, since they're quite different from those in HIPS.