Which Anti-Virus takes little memory?? AVG 8 too large...

External Since: Oct 21, 2008 Posts: 4

On Oct 22, 2:21 pm, "Little Charlie" <littlechar... DeleteThis @bellsouth.net>
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> "Quilljar" <N... DeleteThis @home.today> wrote in messagenews:at6dnVIA88IoyGLVnZ2dnUVZ8vmdnZ2d@bt.com...
> > Avira will take 1% when switched on, and then between 5 and 11% when
> > scanning. does that help?
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> > Yours Quilly,
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> >> Wilf
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> > Quilljar,
> > How much memory are you seeing Avira take up in task manager and how
> > many tasks?
>
> > Thanks
> > Patty
>
> My wife and I both like the free home version of Avast on our respective PC's. (Dell 531 and Dell 531S) I have no idea about memory usage. Both of our PC's run smoothly with no apparent slowdown due to Avast.
> With rare exception I think nowadays the entire AV "resource usage" thing is a non-issue. Even the least expensive PC's have ample CPU and ram to handle them. Moreover the concept of "slow down" and / or "resource hog" is a totally subjective thing. Most users how so many unnecessary (IMHO) background apps running anyway I doubt that a universal and factual AV analysis could be derived.
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Thanks Dave and Colon.
I sometimes help friends with their computers and have seen Norton and
McAfee slow peoples computers to a crawl even with a good deal of
memory. They just try to do too much and be the one stop shop for
things a lot of people do not need.
I do not need web site, link scanning or email scanning, and do not
need a password manager, just AV.

My AVG (300k memory usage) is soon going to be replaced with Avast or
Avira as AVG 7.5 will not be supported past 12/31/08. My paid version
expires actually on the 24th. 8.0 is a hog and also not rated as
highly in finding viruses as others I read.

This article below helped as well:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=210756

Thanks
Patty

External Since: Jul 19, 2007 Posts: 103

pattyjamas.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> On Oct 22, 11:17 am, "Buffalo" <E....DeleteThis@nada.com.invalid> wrote:
>> pattyja....DeleteThis@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
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> 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

Using Avira on my Win2000Pro and auto-updating turned off, I only found two
(there may be more) programs running:
avgnt.exe = 1.184MB and avguard.exe=1.932MB and they total of 3.116MB of
memory. There may be more processes involved, but I don't know what they are