Antivirus that dosen't comsume much resources

[bharat_r]

Can anyone suggest an antivirus thet does not make my PC slow but is better than NAV 2005(I use it NAV2k5 now) in detecting viruses.

I searchedx the QnA forum for "antivirus" & "anti virus" but got only 8 irrelevent results.

 

[kalpik]

NOD32. *www.nod32.com

 

[manas]

Avast! *www.avast.com
It's free.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

This thread will help u:

And the best free antivirus is...

 

[ashfame]

trust nav05 only

i only trust norton antivirus 2005
it will make your computer a bit slow if u hav 256MB RAM
else its a cruise

 

[kikass]

NOD32 is the best i have used... uses the least resources.... and has never let anything through...

 

[kumarmohit]

Clamwin ( No realtime scanner so immensly system light + free + opensource + small updates")

or try AVG free

or try avast! Home

 

[pratheesh_prakash]

Try Avast! ....... its free, fast and reliable!!
AVG....free, a lil bit slower, a lil bit realiable
PC Cillin.....not free, fast, NOT AT ALL reliable
Norton.....not free, SLOW, most reliable

 

[MysticHalo]

what of kaspersky? certainly the best on detection plus lighter on resources than norton and mcafee for sure.
The least resource consuming is AVG, but its detection is doubtful.

 

[ashfame]

hey guys.
i used to hav norton 2005 but due to some error i hav to uninstall it and now its refusing to reinstall.
So i adopt pc cillin internet security 2005 (i got it from my ISP)
i wanna know if its detection rate are good or i should go for some other ANTIVIRUS. I hav heard of NOD32, Avast, kaspersky.
which one is the best?
it should hav frequent updates from net and good detection rate.
kindly tell

 

[digiFriend]

simple, light,effective = avast anti virus personal edition

best rated freeware antivirues by PCWORLD.com

 

[anandk]

nod32
avg
avast

 

[tamilvendan]

Hi friends! This is about NOD32. I was using the free version of NOD32 and one fine day i found most of the files from c drive missing and there was a new folder in c drive by name "my access media" which could not be deleted. I could not bring NOD32 into action as it was not responding. I tried to uninstall NOD32 but i was unable to do it as it kept on telling me it is being used by someother programme. I tried to manually delete the files but could not do it. Then i deleted them using deletedr during startup.

There were so many windows files missing that even repair installation could not be performed. Finally i had to reinstall the xp pro os but in this process all the data got deleted.

I relied on NOD32 too much but some virus has broken it. Now i have NAV.

 

[rahul_rks]

i am using avg antivirus and havent got a single virus in my pc since 1 year.so i would highly recommend it.

 

[kalpik]

I was using the free version of NOD32..

NOD32 does not have a free version

 

[::vicky::]

Avast is the best or there are many boot time virus checking cd available

 

[Dipen01]

Quick Heal is also low on resources..

 

[::vicky::]

Quick Heal is also low on resources..

hey dipen how can u say that my laptop with 128 mb ram and 800 mhz processor gone so slow that when i open my computer it take 20 seconds quick heal is very heavy antivius

 

[gary4gar]

d antivirus which use less resoures hav a lower dection rate & vise versa

there is always a need to choose d right mix!!
d best way is to try ur self,experiment & then c d results.
i test all AV like this. which works fine me is avast
and also i suggest to go 4 a antivirus which is fair on resouces and good in detection rate

 

[Dipen01]

@vicky..: well u must have turned on the system startup scan...so everytime u switch on..it scans ur registry and start up items...

so try turning it off..and see the effect..