Guys, I have an all new copy of windows 7 with my lenovo laptop. I would like to install a good antivirus which will not take good part of my processor speed. Please suggest some efficient and feasible antivirus that will now make my system slow. PS: With my previous laps I tried mcafee (good though taking good portion of the processor), K7 (an okay antivirus) and also Norton (OMG I don't need this). Also I tried the Avira free antivirus, It made my system shut down while installing, so I don't want to try it again. Guys please help me out. Thank you very much.!
AVG is the one that I use (I am still using Windows XP). AVG works well on my 4+ years old PC (512 MB RAM, Pentium 4). I don't see any reason why it should have any problems on faster machines.
yeah.it's Quick Heal.it is very good for removing virus but it doesn't get any load on the Processor speed.
Hello Gurjar, are you talking about avira or AVG? AVG is free right? Avira's free copy is okay? or do I have to get the premium one?
@PRGuy, yes there's a free version of AVG - but they do everything they can to direct you into buying the pay version. START HERE > http://free.avg.com I've always used AVG Free in the past and it's been great - but I've stopped using resident antivirus. These days I use ClamWin, and just manually scan files that I'm suspicious of. So far so good. http://www.clamwin.com/
NOD32 is best ever anti-virus for me. It does not take much CPU or RAM. Just 50Mb on 512mb of RAM. also i don't feel my cpu slow with or without antivirus running
Kaspersky antivirus. Most of the time, it detect threats that other antivirus don't. It also don't use much of the RAM and CPU resources. - Dynashox -
I prefer Avira AntiVir, as well. As for why, it is as I said in my article on Internet security: "[Avira AntiVir] is a lightweight on the machine, its interface is easy to use and makes good sense, and it has impressive detection rates." As for downside, I pointed out that the free version has the minor annoyance of presenting a large advertisement pop-up for its product sometimes after an auto-update.
Yea avira keeps promoting thier premium versions but that mainly at times of updates which is fine i guess
Avast is free and makes a good option for home users and I have used it for 4 years. But now I am with the ESET NOD32, which is of course a paid version but does a great job without eating your system resources...
I use Eset NOD32 Antivirus, it works really good. It was awarded the "BEST Antivirus Solution" in 2006 and 2007 by AV-Comparatives.
you can easily turn that popup off. Avira is very lightweight, more lightweight than any other anti-virus and is better at the moment than the rest. Do a google search about it.