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best free antivirus which uses less system resources? AVG 7 used to be the best but AVG 8 seems to drag more, what do you guys use?
im using a 90 days free trial of norton antivirus 2009 which now has the smallest footprint of any antivirus, norton are so confident about this they include a system meter on their interface. install is small and quick and scans are the fastest i have seen. oem version can be had for a tenner.
As for free avast gets a good rating apparently but never used it.
I tried Kasperski on an Eee box which also uses a Atom processor and had loads of problems. I now use Avira Antivir on both my Eee box and NC10 which apart from the nag screen seems fine. Very low on resources.
Martin
I use Avast and it’s always been the best free one that I can find. Never had a virus get passed it before.
AVG 8 is perhaps a little more bloated than 7 but it’s still not bad at all. I’ve not had any issues whatsoever with it and hardly even notice it….. except for when it tells me it has successfully installed an update.
The Norton trial sounds great though – will try it out too.
TheRing: I saw your post elsewhere on the site and have downloaded it already just not installed it yet. Thank you though, good tip. Perhaps I’ll see if I can get the £10 OEM version, any ideas where from?
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I tried Kasperski on an Eee box which also uses a Atom processor and had loads of problems. I now use Avira Antivir on both my Eee box and NC10 which apart from the nag screen seems fine. Very low on resources.Martin
[/quote1227352625]Avira is simply (one of) the best. Read this
yeah the oem can br brought from Novatech.com amongst over sellers including dabs some links for you
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-031-NO
To be honest, there isn’t much difference in the results between the top 4, so any of them should be sufficient.
I use AVG 8.0 on all 3 of my computers and find it works great. It’s also good to hear to Symantec have finally gotten round to sorting out Norton Anti-Virus and its need to hog so much system resources, as I used to love it back in the day.
Quote:To be honest, there isn’t much difference in the results between the top 4, so any of them should be sufficient.That’s true, however…
Quote:I use AVG 8.0 on all 3 of my computers and find it works great.[quote1227370896=TheRing]
yeah the oem can br brought from Novatech.com amongst over sellers including dabs some links for youhttp://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-031-NO
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=26967
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Thank you very much – I’ll have a look st those
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yeah the oem can br brought from Novatech.com amongst over sellers including dabs some links for youhttp://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-031-NO
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=26967
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Thank you very much – I’ll have a look st those
[/quote1227372295]no worries
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