I am having AVG installed in my laptop, but my technical person said its good to keep anti virus, but the speed gets slower with it.. I never kept initially in my pc. Is it true?? Does the speed gets affected by it??
If you were using some crap like Norton, it will use most of the CPU, but you are with the best (AVG) so their should be no notable speed difference, apart from when it is scanning.
Norton new versions design for new hardware so we cannot say that norton is a high CPU consumer. However you better use some antivirus software version that is suitable for the Laptop hardware.
Hello geckoseo! You can observe that lot of system resources are used by the anti virus software. Norton may be a good anti virus but it occupies lot of resources and your PC will be slowed down. If you are using AVG free version, then it will not have the real time protection feature. I would suggest getting "Kaspersky Anti Virus" which is very light on PC and strongest interms of virus signatures. I personally use Kaspersky Internet Security for my PC protection and would recommend you the same. This will have inbuilt anti spyware + anti virus + firewall. All these are a must for a PC. Instead of getting a seperate software for each one, I prefer going for KIS.
yes, anti virus use lot of memory and cpu process. so may be possible that your compute slow down. but i think avg is good and give effect like unnotable. i think your pc configuration is low.
I use Security Shield by PCSecurity. It is built from Kaspersky but in my opinion a lot better and cheaper. I found it discounted at this virus protection software site.
Even I'm using AVG Antivirus... I feel it is good.. Earlier I used Norton.. As my system had got good resources I dint feel that Norton had made my system slower.. But having atleast a simple AntiVirus software is very much essential these days..
Yes, running an antivirus software will affect the speed of your computer. Try this: http://www.filehippo.com/download_antivir/ In my opinion it's better than AVG.
Any anti virus product will slow down your computer, but only a little (1-5%). All the people talking about Norton being the worst are wrong. Ever since Norton 2006, Norton doesn't more CPU than any other virus scanner. Personally, I don't like AVG because of the many false positives. My favorites are Avast Home edition and Norton.