Antivirus Issue

[samrulez]

yeah! They will! and startups will take hours!

 

[thewisecrab]

Dude i'm asking 4 suggestion not comment....

 

[samrulez]

Dood......just install ZA and avast! and compare the startup with KAV or NOD32 ...

 

[s18000rpm]

ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall eats up around 15-25MB of RAM (look for these processes in Task Manager-> "zlclient" & "vsmon").

Dunno about Avast, but AVG 7.5 takes only around 3-5MB (including all its process under "SYSTEM" user name).

With Avast there'll be very less change(neglegible) in start-up time, but ZoneAlarm slows the start-up by 5+ seconds.

If you have 512MB RAM or more, you wont see much difference in start-up time of your PC, provided there's no other Start-up process enabled in "msconfig". (except ZA & Avast )

 

[shantanu]

you are on the right path go for avast only

 

[anandk]

i use such protection (kis) ONLY WHEN i am on the nett. otherwise i have NO startups.

 

[shantanu]

avast is a good solution but if startup matters yeahevery antivirus just eats up your memories to the extent and leaves no space for you or virus to survive

joking

yeah but it will surely slow down

 

[samrulez]

The thing is its not just the mem utilization...its also the speed of real time scanning etc etc.....even Norton takes with 25MB of ram...and KAV also takes 25MB of ram...but do they equally slow down the PC?? Ehhh?