Simple Antivirus Software?

Question

Hi guys. I have a 5 year old PC which I still use for browsing the web (and answering on Yahoo). After installing Norton 2007 I found that it reduces PC performance so much that I am almost unable to work on the PC. AVG basic (the free downloadable version) does pretty much the same. Is there anywhere I can find Antivirus software which is not so processor intensive?

Specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.06GHz

256 MB RAM

30 GB HDD

Ati Radeon Graphics with 20 MB GDDR

Any suggestions will be helpful.

Answer 1

simple anti virus can be avg plus its free works fine with me  

Answer 2

if you increase you ram to 2 gigs or at least 1 gig basically  or at least doubling  what you have now to 512 MB  it will help out a lot but any anti virus out there is going to slow down your performance with the current ram you have if you don't know ram is  your "random access memory" meaning all your programs feed off of your ram any running and even when you open or close some thing it accesses your "ram"  i don't use avg or Norton both are pretty much worthless avg use to be good but recently they have had to many issues with updates and software errors it makes it hard for me to actually recommend them any more this is what i use now and what I recommend if you read this review on cnet you will see why i chose this and lets not forget it found two Trojans that avg missed on my machine

avira the best there is on the market today

http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Pe...

Answer 3

I am suspecting you got other things dragging it down.  Try going to http://www.ad-aware.com and download the free version, let it update itself and run it through your computer and take out adware and spyware.  You can then uninstall it from control panel add/remove if you are tight on your ram.

   Do you ever do "disk clean up and error check" the C drive?  Do both those functions(they are part of Windows)by going thru my computer and then right click C drive.

     I would also do a registry cleaning too.(that is not c**p Cleaner)

For the registry cleaning,many programs carry it as a side-line>and they always find different things< there is no perfect one that does it all.

    I use Registry FirstAid(by Rose City Software) It does a fairly complete job and no settings (to printers or scanners)are affected.  I have been using the free trial which only correct a portion of what it finds - but I just redo the scan and do it again.

   Once it is cleaned of registry errors, your pc will go faster with no "hiccups".   It is something I expected from "defragging" and have never seen.

   Sure you can try other registry cleaner programs and they will find other stuff(some will find the identical 26 files that need removing>which sound suspicious, like who brought them in?<

   That too I would remove with the add/remove programs to keep ram clear.

     c**p Cleaner is a good free program that picks up alot of trash and frees up memory more.

  

Either at this point AVG is not causing any problems drain wise, or you could try AntiVir.  You can't run them both.  So the other will have to be uninstalled.  AVG wants it that way.

AntiVir is less processor intensive because it does not have a real time email scanner(catching the virus before it gets into the computer).   AVG and Avast do.    AntiVir will deal with it once it is opened in the computer.

Answer 4

downlaod spyware doctor with antivirus

its free

Answer 5

The problem is that most AntiVirus programs need to be updated and be aggresive in their scanning operations in order to do battle with the various types of malware out there today. Virus are getting more and more high-tech, and so must AV proghrams to keep up (Or rather ahead)

Therefor it will be difficult to find an AV program that is actually low on PC resources.

I still use AVG 7 on one of my older PC's, but support and updates will seize and that will render the program useless for all practical purposes.

Have a look at this: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthrea...

I still prefer AVG 8 though. It is still fairly "light" in my opinion. And trust me, if you get 100 suggestions, there will most probably be 50 different ones.

Good luck. :)