Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
11-09-2011, 14:45
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Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
Hi,
I am looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb, running Windows XP Home SP3.
Can anyone recommend one?
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11-09-2011, 15:35
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
Avira Antivir is fairly lightweight, ought to be along the lines of what you want 
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11-09-2011, 15:59
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
Microsoft Security Essentials.
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11-09-2011, 16:04
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
MSE isn't lightweight in my opinion but its an option. also consider on-demand scanners such as malware-bytes, super antispyware, advanced system protector
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11-09-2011, 16:56
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
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Originally Posted by thenry
MSE isn't lightweight in my opinion but its an option. also consider on-demand scanners such as malware-bytes, super antispyware, advanced system protector
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50MB is not bad for the protection it provides.
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11-09-2011, 17:04
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
I agree but I was on about CPU usage. The updater and the scanner eats resources. Then again I advised advanced system protector as an additional on demand scanner which takes ages updating on kitted systems let alone low spec systems.
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11-09-2011, 18:08
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
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Avira Antivir is fairly lightweight, ought to be along the lines of what you want |
I'll second that. 
I'm running it on an old desktop with a P4 3gig + XP sp3 and it doesn't slow me down even with web guard enabled.
Be aware that it does screw up your speed test results though.
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12-09-2011, 21:21
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
http://www.raymond.cc/antivirus/ A "lighest antivirus" test - no testing at all of virus finding, this is purely about the performance hit.
http://www.raymond.cc/antivirus/peakmem.html The peak memory test, of the free ones:
Avast (V5) - 64MB
Preventon Free - 84MB (that's one not often mentioned - http://www.preventon.com/products/av-free )
AVG Free, V9 123MB, V10 128MB
Comodo 204MB
MSE (V1) 215MB
Avira - 219MB
MSE (V2) - 324MB (was it a beta?)
At idle usage, the worst of the free was MSE V2 at 62MB, with Preventon also having high idle memory.
Avast was good on boot time
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12-09-2011, 21:30
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
That box needs more RAM...
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17-09-2011, 00:08
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
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That box needs more RAM...
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I was just thinking that.
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17-09-2011, 00:38
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
We have a load of pretty pants computers left at work (a replacement programme is in hand). Our 7 year old P4 based Dell Optiplex 512MB RAM (yes I can't believe we bought some of them in 2004 and yet they are still working well despite daily often intensive office abuse) are running an Avast based antivirus. Seems to do OK, although it isn't the current avast client. but an older corporate one controlled via a centralise distribution and updating server console.
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18-09-2011, 03:39
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Re: Looking for a free lightweight virus killer for P4 2.6 with 512mb DDR
Avast doesnt use that much system resources.
In Task manager atm the Avast UI is showing at using 3,464kb.
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