(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:21 pm
Post subject: Which Anti-Virus takes little memory?? AVG 8 too large... Archived from groups: alt>comp>anti-virus (more info?)
I am running AVG 7.5 on 3 computers. This is a paid license. There is
only one process running if you shut off auto updates and kill
avgamsvr. And the main process AVGCC takes up a small 300k. I do not
think SVCHOST applies here.
I do not need all the bells and bloated whistles of Norton Suites,
ZoneAlarm or McAfee. Have tried them all before and am content with a
decent AV product without anything else. If it comes with a spyware
component I will take it but I have used the combo of AdAware, Spybot,
and Spywareblaster. MBAM is great if you do get infected, but I rarely
get a virus or spyware and am the sole user of my machines. Lucky I
suppose.
In looking at the web site av-test.org I see that Avira ranks pretty
highly in terms of %'s. AV was fairly low which surprised me.
I did try AVG 8 (licensed) and it takes (like others have said) way
too many resources and I uninstalled it. This was the paid version. I
have read a few peoples comments about the 8.x free version (virus and
spyware only) and not too many were glowing.
In summary,
What I am looking for is a fairly high ranking AV product that has a
small footprint in terms of memory use and will not cause much
sluggishness on my systems (P4 3.4, E6600 Core 2 Duo, Dell XPS laptop
2.4ghz--all have 3gb of memory, 2 are XP, 1 Vista)
Not sure how much memory Avira or AVK or F-Secure use and how many
tasks they spawn, but they ranked highly.
(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:07 am
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:51 am
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On Oct 22, 6:55 am, Wilf <w....DeleteThis@replyto.newsgroup> wrote:
> pattyja....DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote, on 22/10/2008 3:21 am:
>
> > What I am looking for is a fairly high ranking AV product that has a
> > small footprint in terms of memory use and will not cause much
> > sluggishness on my systems (P4 3.4, E6600 Core 2 Duo, Dell XPS laptop
> > 2.4ghz--all have 3gb of memory, 2 are XP, 1 Vista)
>
> I have used Kaspersky Anti Virus for about 3 years. It is not memory-
> or cpu-hungry. It is not a free product (although you can try it out
> for free for a month), but it is well worth it, in my experience. There
> is an especially helpful user forum where problems are very quickly
> sorted and this, in itself, is a big "plus".
>
> --
> Wilf
Quilljar,
How much memory are you seeing Avira take up in task manager and how
many tasks?
(Msg. 4) Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:15 am
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I have just changed all my machines and those of my clients from AVG to
Avira for the same reason. Nothing wrong with AVG except it had got too
large. Avira seems very good, perhaps even better
(Msg. 5) Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:17 am
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pattyjamas.RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
> I am running AVG 7.5 on 3 computers. This is a paid license. There is
> only one process running if you shut off auto updates and kill
> avgamsvr. And the main process AVGCC takes up a small 300k. I do not
> think SVCHOST applies here.
>
> I do not need all the bells and bloated whistles of Norton Suites,
> ZoneAlarm or McAfee. Have tried them all before and am content with a
> decent AV product without anything else. If it comes with a spyware
> component I will take it but I have used the combo of AdAware, Spybot,
> and Spywareblaster. MBAM is great if you do get infected, but I rarely
> get a virus or spyware and am the sole user of my machines. Lucky I
> suppose.
>
> In looking at the web site av-test.org I see that Avira ranks pretty
> highly in terms of %'s. AV was fairly low which surprised me.
>
>
> I did try AVG 8 (licensed) and it takes (like others have said) way
> too many resources and I uninstalled it. This was the paid version. I
> have read a few peoples comments about the 8.x free version (virus and
> spyware only) and not too many were glowing.
>
> In summary,
>
> What I am looking for is a fairly high ranking AV product that has a
> small footprint in terms of memory use and will not cause much
> sluggishness on my systems (P4 3.4, E6600 Core 2 Duo, Dell XPS laptop
> 2.4ghz--all have 3gb of memory, 2 are XP, 1 Vista)
>
> Not sure how much memory Avira or AVK or F-Secure use and how many
> tasks they spawn, but they ranked highly.
>
> Thanks
> Patty
Your PCs seems to be powerful enough and have enough ram that Avira
shouldn't slow it down at all.
I use the free version on my Win2000Pro and I am running only 1GB of ram
with an AMD 2100XP cpu (1.8GHz).
(Msg. 6) Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:32 am
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On Oct 22, 11:17 am, "Buffalo" <E... RemoveThis @nada.com.invalid> wrote:
> pattyja... RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> > I am running AVG 7.5 on 3 computers. This is a paid license. There is
> > only one process running if you shut off auto updates and kill
> > avgamsvr. And the main process AVGCC takes up a small 300k. I do not
> > think SVCHOST applies here.
>
> > I do not need all the bells and bloated whistles of Norton Suites,
> > ZoneAlarm or McAfee. Have tried them all before and am content with a
> > decent AV product without anything else. If it comes with a spyware
> > component I will take it but I have used the combo of AdAware, Spybot,
> > and Spywareblaster. MBAM is great if you do get infected, but I rarely
> > get a virus or spyware and am the sole user of my machines. Lucky I
> > suppose.
>
> > In looking at the web site av-test.org I see that Avira ranks pretty
> > highly in terms of %'s. AV was fairly low which surprised me.
>
> > I did try AVG 8 (licensed) and it takes (like others have said) way
> > too many resources and I uninstalled it. This was the paid version. I
> > have read a few peoples comments about the 8.x free version (virus and
> > spyware only) and not too many were glowing.
>
> > In summary,
>
> > What I am looking for is a fairly high ranking AV product that has a
> > small footprint in terms of memory use and will not cause much
> > sluggishness on my systems (P4 3.4, E6600 Core 2 Duo, Dell XPS laptop
> > 2.4ghz--all have 3gb of memory, 2 are XP, 1 Vista)
>
> > Not sure how much memory Avira or AVK or F-Secure use and how many
> > tasks they spawn, but they ranked highly.
>
> > Thanks
> > Patty
>
> Your PCs seems to be powerful enough and have enough ram that Avira
> shouldn't slow it down at all.
> I use the free version on my Win2000Pro and I am running only 1GB of ram
> with an AMD 2100XP cpu (1.8GHz).- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Can someone go into task manager and tell me how much mem usage their
AV (trying to take a poll) programs are consuming?
(Msg. 7) Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:21 am
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pattyjamas RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> On Oct 22, 11:17 am, "Buffalo" <E... RemoveThis @nada.com.invalid> wrote:
>> pattyja... RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
>>> I am running AVG 7.5 on 3 computers. This is a paid license. There
>>> is only one process running if you shut off auto updates and kill
>>> avgamsvr. And the main process AVGCC takes up a small 300k. I do not
>>> think SVCHOST applies here.
>>
>>> I do not need all the bells and bloated whistles of Norton Suites,
>>> ZoneAlarm or McAfee. Have tried them all before and am content with
>>> a decent AV product without anything else. If it comes with a
>>> spyware component I will take it but I have used the combo of
>>> AdAware, Spybot, and Spywareblaster. MBAM is great if you do get
>>> infected, but I rarely get a virus or spyware and am the sole user
>>> of my machines. Lucky I suppose.
>>
>>> In looking at the web site av-test.org I see that Avira ranks pretty
>>> highly in terms of %'s. AV was fairly low which surprised me.
>>
>>> I did try AVG 8 (licensed) and it takes (like others have said) way
>>> too many resources and I uninstalled it. This was the paid version.
>>> I have read a few peoples comments about the 8.x free version
>>> (virus and spyware only) and not too many were glowing.
>>
>>> In summary,
>>
>>> What I am looking for is a fairly high ranking AV product that has a
>>> small footprint in terms of memory use and will not cause much
>>> sluggishness on my systems (P4 3.4, E6600 Core 2 Duo, Dell XPS
>>> laptop
>>> 2.4ghz--all have 3gb of memory, 2 are XP, 1 Vista)
>>
>>> Not sure how much memory Avira or AVK or F-Secure use and how many
>>> tasks they spawn, but they ranked highly.
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Patty
>>
>> Your PCs seems to be powerful enough and have enough ram that Avira
>> shouldn't slow it down at all.
>> I use the free version on my Win2000Pro and I am running only 1GB of
>> ram with an AMD 2100XP cpu (1.8GHz).- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Can someone go into task manager and tell me how much mem usage their
> AV (trying to take a poll) programs are consuming?
>
> Thanks
> Patty
Why are you so worried about the memory usage? You have plenty.
Are you noticing slowdowns with other AV's?
I don't know all the processes that Avira uses so it would be hard for me to
give you the mem usage figure and I don't want to waste my time looking them
up. If you tell me what the processes are, I will look them up in Task
Manager and give you the mem numbers.
(Msg. 8) Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:55 am
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pattyjamas DeleteThis @gmail.com wrote, on 22/10/2008 3:21 am:
>
> What I am looking for is a fairly high ranking AV product that has a
> small footprint in terms of memory use and will not cause much
> sluggishness on my systems (P4 3.4, E6600 Core 2 Duo, Dell XPS laptop
> 2.4ghz--all have 3gb of memory, 2 are XP, 1 Vista)
>
I have used Kaspersky Anti Virus for about 3 years. It is not memory-
or cpu-hungry. It is not a free product (although you can try it out
for free for a month), but it is well worth it, in my experience. There
is an especially helpful user forum where problems are very quickly
sorted and this, in itself, is a big "plus".
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