best antivirus in terms of low cpu processing

[jobenjoseph]

Hi friends

Is ther any anti vrus which is good and does not slow the CPU processing

 

[deepak.krishnan]

Try out AVAST Home edition.

Now this is about the 5th time or so I have seen almost similar questions.

 

[samrulez]

avast! really lite!...eats 4MB memory

But better is NOD32 it provides gr8 security in proportion to the resources it uses...

 

[mikeon]

Same here Avast is great

 

[paul_007]

NOD32 .....though it eats memory but performs very well

 

[shaunak]

Probably the lighest scaner: avast!

 

[anandk]

freeware : avast
paid : kav

 

[gxsaurav]

try out NAV 2007 if possible, it's not using much RAM here, 8 MB total

i m just waiting for KAV 6 final to relese, i have tried their beta antivirus, it's good still not what i was expecting, like i went to system32 folder & it started scanning everything in that folder in real time & system started crawling for 2 mins.

Also , with a previous beta, when i was downloading itunes for working on an ipod, KAV was scanning that file being downloaded, so CPU usage went to 100%

thats why just waiting for the final version

 

[caleb]

Hi friends
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?Is ther any anti vrus which is good and does not slow the CPU processing

Absoutely AVAST there is no other antivirus, that I know of, which is free & very lite on sys resources.

 

[drvarunmehta]

Avast is light on RAM but it dosen't have a good detection rate. Try BitDefender. It's far lighter than Norton and has one of the best detection rates in the business.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

One more vote for avast!

 

[Stick]

Another Vote for AVAST, if you want system run without any problem,

I already used ZA (some problem with PC shut down for Win98)
KAV (some futures can not get enabled with Win98)

 

[drvarunmehta]

Look at this thread. Avast is way down the list. What use having an Antivirus just because it's light when it dosen't have a good detection rate?

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35440

Overall Rank

1. Kaspersky version 6.0.0.303 - 99.62%

2. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.299 - 99.62%

3. F-Secure 2006 version 6.12.90 - 96.86%

4. BitDefender Professional version 9 - 96.63%

5. CyberScrub version 1.0 - 95.98%

6. eScan version 8.0.671.1 - 95.82%

7. BitDefender freeware version 8.0.202 - 95.57%

8. BullGuard version 6.1 - 95.57%

9. AntiVir Premium version 7.01.01.02 - 95.45%

10. Nod32 version 2.51.30 - 95.14%

11. AntiVir Classic version 7.01.01.02 - 94.26%

12. ViruScape 2006 version 1.02.0935.0137 - 93.87%

13. McAfee version 10.0.27 - 93.03%

14. McAfee Enterprise version 8.0.0 - 91.76%

15. F-Prot version 6.0.4.3 beta - 87.88%

16. Avast Professional version 4.7.871 - 87.46%

17. Avast freeware version 4.7.871 - 87.46%

18. Dr. Web version 4.33.2 - 86.03%

19. Norman version 5.90.23 - 85.65%

20. F-Prot version 3.16f - 85.14%

21. ArcaVir 2006 - 83.44%

22. Norton Professional 2006 - 83.18%

23. AVG Professional version 7.1.405 - 82.82%

24. AVG freeware version 7.1.405 - 82.82%

25. Panda 2007 version 2.00.01 - 82.23%

26. Virus Chaser version 5.0a - 81.47%

27. PC-Cillin 2006 version 14.10.1051 - 80.90%

28. VBA32 version 3.11.0 - 79.12%

29. ViRobot Expert version 4.0 - 76.22%

30. UNA version 1.83 - 75.44%

 

[ashisharya]

look for nod32

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

although i don't use anti virus but tried nod32 . eats less resources .

 

[mediator]

AVAST and KAspersky

 

[Cool G5]

Avast Home.

 

[sysfilez]

quick heal is best antivirus in terms of low cpu processing, next in line is kaspersky. i personally use kaspersky.

 

[Kiran.dks]

avast! is the one for you. It has got awesome On-access scanner and web shields.

 

[nix]

just got rid of NAV yesterday and have been running nod32 since yesterday...its low on memory and so far has been doing good job of reporting and deleting viruses...