John Connor
Lifer
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Guys not creating a new topic for this, but what's the best lightweight AV/IS out there, which will suit and not slow down my crappy Samsung NP355E5X Notebook? For past five years I have been using NIS for desktop, but I am not sure if it will suit this slow hardware.
Thanks.
I think there are still many good antivirus, but there are also lots of people who get infected with malware with those good antivirus on, so how to say?
indeed, lightest AV I've ever used and they have superior customer service.seriously, Webroot is really good.
I had Bitdefender Antivirus (Latest version) on my media center, licensed from a sale a while back. I kept getting bombarded with "Log into your Bitdefender account". It drove me nuts.
Anyhow my brother gave me one of his licenses for AVG Internet Security and it's a hell of a lot less intrusive. I've never been a fan of AVG, but the latest version seems pretty good. No intrusive advertisements at least.
I haven't had any problems with web-scanning, the only actual problem has been the AVG Outlook addon which stopped us receiving emails - Have a family email account on the TV . I just uninstalled that and all has been well.The version on the office computer has some annoyances, especially if you have web scanning on. Using Windows lately has made a nice refresher on why I like Debian so much. I keep the work machine pretty locked down, and I'm thinking about uninstalling AVG. Maybe just using ClamWin to scan the occasional file if the need arises.
Last week i got a virus that kept playing music in the background which forced me to rethink my gripes against AV software.
Not really much you can do about other people, but running as a standard user would greatly decrease attack surface on the machine. It wouls also limit what other people could do on that machine as well.Any idea how you got it? My biggest concern is other people have access to my work machine(WinXP). I can police myself, but can't police others when I'm not there. There's some peculiarities with our setup that makes upgrading machines difficult. As I get time, I want to test out some ideas on a free machine, but before that, I have a data recovery job to tackle :^/
Guys not creating a new topic for this, but what's the best lightweight AV/IS out there, which will suit and not slow down my crappy Samsung NP355E5X Notebook? For past five years I have been using NIS for desktop, but I am not sure if it will suit this slow hardware.
Thanks.
I have run NIS for a long time; I luv it; recent builds are the opposite of resource hogs. Anyhow who says otherwise has not run Norton since waaaaaaaay back.
What are the specs of what you call yr "crappy Samsung" lappy? Even if it's dual core, core duo....with not impressive RAM, I doubt NIS will make a dent.
I have sold that bloody laptop, and got a Lenovo B490, i3 2.4 GHz (3rd gen), 2 GB RAM and blah blah, I guess NIS won't cause any problem now right?I have run NIS for a long time; I luv it; recent builds are the opposite of resource hogs. Anyhow who says otherwise has not run Norton since waaaaaaaay back.
What are the specs of what you call yr "crappy Samsung" lappy? Even if it's dual core, core duo....with not impressive RAM, I doubt NIS will make a dent.
I have a NAV license which I've stopped using due to a bug not resolved since more than 4 months now. While it's only a cosmetic bug, I'm a perfectionist and cannot deal with lazy programmers that can't fix such a simple issue. http://community.norton.com/t5/Norto...highlight/true
I have a NAV license which I've stopped using due to a bug not resolved since more than 4 months now. While it's only a cosmetic bug, I'm a perfectionist and cannot deal with lazy programmers that can't fix such a simple issue.
http://community.norton.com/t5/Nort...ns-in-system-tray/td-p/1046489/highlight/true
I agree though, NAV/NIS are amongst the lightest security products right now as opposed to their past reputation of being resource heavy. NAV is actually much much lighter than NOD32. Proof? Copy a large 4 GB file from an HDD to another HDD and mark the speed with both and you'll see the huge difference.
Still sticking to my favorite though, lightest AV on earth, very secure, is only 700 KB in size, and auto updates silently (the program auto updates) the definitions are in the cloud so they don't need to be updated which explains its lightness / effectiveness
What Happens if Webroot "Misses" a Virus?
I have sold that bloody laptop, and got a Lenovo B490, i3 2.4 GHz (3rd gen), 2 GB RAM and blah blah, I guess NIS won't cause any problem now right?
Or should I try Webroot?