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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: alunonhisown on 25 February 2010, 18:14:16
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So, please tell me which is the best FREE AV to have.
I currently have Avira, but seems poor to me.
Any ideas folks?
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no such thing as 'best' av.
try a few, see how you get on.
for win7, Microsoft's own seems to be doing the job. Doesn't work in corporate environments though
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I am using Windows Vista Home Premium
HTH
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i use avira and avg. never had a prob until last friday.
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switched from avg to avast recently and the difference was remarkable. AVG is very resource hungry
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switched from avg to avast recently and the difference was remarkable. AVG is very resource hungry
LOL, you want to try Mcafee Enterprise - makes my works HP nc6400 1.8g core2, 1gb ram, xp pro run like a dog ;D
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No ta! I steer clear of Mcrappy products ;D
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Comodo here, anti virus and firewall. Free
Mick
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I use avast, :y
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I am using Windows Vista Home Premium
HTH
same here and i find avg ok
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No idea if MS are back porting to Vista, or if their free offering is a Win7 only thing. Don't use Vista any more, so haven't checked
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avast not a problem runs well in the background
so much better than avg
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Avast here, Antivir let a virus through on another PC and AVG is a hog now
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switched from avg to avast recently and the difference was remarkable. AVG is very resource hungry
LOL, you want to try Mcafee Enterprise - makes my works HP nc6400 1.8g core2, 1gb ram, xp pro run like a dog ;D
Try running a HP laptop with that, crappy Novel client, and now Mcafee encryption :(
Mines core2 duo, 2.40 ghz, 3gb ram, still runs like a sack poo poo
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Sadly, any AV solution doing a good job will use resources. Those that use less are doing a less thorough job. Thats the nature of the beast.
Even Mcafee Enterprise, probably the most resource hungry of all the AV solutions, can be made to be spritely by adjusting its default settings away from scanning everything (which is the ultra safe way, hence used in the corporate AV solutions) to minimal scanning used by the free versions of the commercial home solutions.
I agree some are slightly more efficient than others, but not much in it. :)
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Had a ;ook at someones laptop today, first time I have ever had a play with windows vista OS (think it was the 32bit version), dunno the the sped of the PC but sussed it had 768mb ram and was running like a 386 taking ages to boot.
Turned off the daily scans in AVG and windows defender, this speed the lappy up no end. Personallyi dont understand the daily scan thing as files are scanned on DVD drives and when on the net, so now set for a weekly scan on one prog and had a monthly oprion on the other. (Up to them if they wanna change it back)
Lappy was powered by an AMD CPU, not that impressed performance wise.
Nice looking lappy though even it was an Acer.
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Had a ;ook at someones laptop today, first time I have ever had a play with windows vista OS (think it was the 32bit version), dunno the the sped of the PC but sussed it had 768mb ram and was running like a 386 taking ages to boot.
Turned off the daily scans in AVG and windows defender, this speed the lappy up no end. Personallyi dont understand the daily scan thing as files are scanned on DVD drives and when on the net, so now set for a weekly scan on one prog and had a monthly oprion on the other. (Up to them if they wanna change it back)
Lappy was powered by an AMD CPU, not that impressed performance wise.
Nice looking lappy though even it was an Acer.
Acer suck. End of.
768Mb not enough for Vista. Bet the video card has a chunk as well.
Scans are important - AV on access scans depend on the sig/dat files having the definition in. It won't if undiscovered (or not in dat). Additionally, sometimes people disable AV to install s/w. Hence scans to mop up those that can bypass.
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Acer suck. End of.
768Mb not enough for Vista. Bet the video card has a chunk as well.
Scans are important - AV on access scans depend on the sig/dat files having the definition in. It won't if undiscovered (or not in dat). Additionally, sometimes people disable AV to install s/w. Hence scans to mop up those that can bypass.
Never liked Acer, but as mentioned it does look nice, sadly it 's performance is shite.
768mb, first thing I thought was shared graphics.
Scans are important, I totally agree, but for now they are weekly on that Lappy (as it aint mine)
I allways do a scan after a system install and generally keep my software addons till last thing before bed and do a scan when I dont need the PC (overnight)
I will be honest I dont view scanning the PC daily as a critical "Must Do" every day.
Plus the other thing that was eveident, yet annother PC with loads of photo's on it and not one of them backed up. :-/
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avast is quite popular here and often referred as "the best".
Some think F-Secure is the best but it is quite expensive and eating ALOT of resources.
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Acer suck. End of.
768Mb not enough for Vista. Bet the video card has a chunk as well.
Scans are important - AV on access scans depend on the sig/dat files having the definition in. It won't if undiscovered (or not in dat). Additionally, sometimes people disable AV to install s/w. Hence scans to mop up those that can bypass.
Never liked Acer, but as mentioned it does look nice, sadly it 's performance is shite.
768mb, first thing I thought was shared graphics.
Scans are important, I totally agree, but for now they are weekly on that Lappy (as it aint mine)
I allways do a scan after a system install and generally keep my software addons till last thing before bed and do a scan when I dont need the PC (overnight)
I will be honest I dont view scanning the PC daily as a critical "Must Do" every day.
Plus the other thing that was eveident, yet annother PC with loads of photo's on it and not one of them backed up. :-/
I actually use avg on my win7 PCs, set to scan daily. Apart from the hdd noise, I dont notice its scanning. But then, I refuse to use AMD shite, with their poor support chipsets...
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switched from avg to avast recently and the difference was remarkable. AVG is very resource hungry
LOL, you want to try Mcafee Enterprise - makes my works HP nc6400 1.8g core2, 1gb ram, xp pro run like a dog ;D
Haha, just you wait until you try v8.7i on a Win7 client. Even with Patch 2 the on-access scanner keels over regularly and throws up pop-ups all over the place. This would be the Patch 2 that *officially* provided support for Win7 ;D.
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switched from avg to avast recently and the difference was remarkable. AVG is very resource hungry
LOL, you want to try Mcafee Enterprise - makes my works HP nc6400 1.8g core2, 1gb ram, xp pro run like a dog ;D
Haha, just you wait until you try v8.7i on a Win7 client. Even with Patch 2 the on-access scanner keels over regularly and throws up pop-ups all over the place. This would be the Patch 2 that *officially* provided support for Win7 ;D.
Looks like thats the way we are going. Our initial tests weren't that positive, but the client is tied into the Mcafee suite for managability/cost reasons. Ho hum.