I've been using Avast! for the best part of.. three years now, it's kept me going nicely, I do rarely visit websites I deem to be un-safe (apart from streaming porn) and I haven't had an intruder in a long, long time.
Although I've been thinking of using Microsoft Security Essentials for the sake of it being less resource heavy, although I don't have a clue if this is true or not?
Which do you prefer?
MSE does use less resources, good AV.
MSE uses less, but it's shit.
[QUOTE=faillord adam;28637179]MSE uses less, but it's shit.[/QUOTE]
If you're not a retard, MSE is all you need...
[QUOTE=faillord adam;28637179]MSE uses less, but it's shit.[/QUOTE]
No
COMODO.
Well, I love COMODO but I'd say that out of those two MSE uses less but isn't as good as Avast!
[QUOTE=brandonsh;28637236]COMODO.
Well, I love COMODO but I'd say that out of those two MSE uses less but isn't as good as Avast![/QUOTE]
I used Comodo a while ago but having to create my own white list and clicking "Yes" to allow every program and every fucking DLL I start really pissed me off, I know you can download a whitelist or turn the feature off but still, also I had compatibility issues.
[QUOTE=David Tennant;28637261]I used Comodo a while ago but having to create my own white list and clicking "Yes" to allow every program and every fucking DLL I start really pissed me off, I know you can download a whitelist or turn the feature off but still, also I had compatibility issues.[/QUOTE]
or you can set it to training mode, it should only ask you about really sketchy executables. It isn't nearly as annoying as you lot make it out to be. Once it has learned roughly how you use your PC and what you run regularly it stops being a pain in the ass.
[QUOTE=faillord adam;28637179]MSE uses less, but it's shit.[/QUOTE]
I love how you backed this up with reasons and sources.
I had a real issue with MSE where the real-time scanner would start freezing the system up after 2-3 days of uptime unless I stopped and started it, so I'm using Avast right now. I'd prefer something a little lighter weight, but it does the trick well.
[QUOTE=leach139;28637672]I had a real issue with MSE where the real-time scanner would start freezing the system up after 2-3 days of uptime unless I stopped and started it, so I'm using Avast right now. I'd prefer something a little lighter weight, but it does the trick well.[/QUOTE]
Avast is light weight enough anyway, unless you have a pentium 4 and 1gb ram or something which I know you don't.
Avast is very lightweight, probably not as much as MSE though. I still love avast more.
MSE is actually quite heavy so i stopped using it after caught it taking up 100MB of ram. Avast is only using 3MB at the moment.
MSE is taking up ~40mb of ram right now, and I'm folding + uploading and downloading stuff via SFTP, so I'd say it's okay.
Keep in mind, I haven't used MSE in a loooong time. Last I did use it, MSE had greater impact on system performance than Avast during scans or while installing programs (Real-time scanning doing its thing). I would occasionally have issues with MSE slowing the install of a game to really slow. However, this was a long time ago and I am overdue to try it again. In my experience, Avast is just lightweight all around from real-time scanning to full systems scan. They are both solid AVs. Nevertheless, MSE always seemed to detect malware that Avast was blind to.
[QUOTE=Legend286;28638416]Avast is light weight enough anyway, unless you have a pentium 4 and 1gb ram or something which I know you don't.[/QUOTE]
Current version of Avast runs fine on our Pentium 4 with 768 MB of RAM.
I use MSE on my main computer though.
Avira is probably lower resource use than anything suggested in this thread so far
I use and recommend MSE to anyone I know.
I got it doing a full scan and it's only using 7.5Mb of ram and the processor stays below 2%.
(Intel Core2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00GHz)
I use MSE on my laptop and my sisters computer. Nothing wrong with them so far.
I have MSE on about 1.5k client computers, no complaints of slowdowns due to it.
I use both MSE AND AVAST!, and one wrong click (disguised as a broken flash player) took over my laptop, blocking me from running any exe files... Malwarebytes fixed it with a Safe Mode scan.
I'll go back to MSE after it becomes better with detection and a better virus database as well. But in the mean time I'm fine with using Avast.
[QUOTE=Candice;28658246]I use both MSE AND AVAST!, and one wrong click (disguised as a broken flash player) took over my laptop, blocking me from running any exe files... Malwarebytes fixed it with a Safe Mode scan.[/QUOTE]
Do you have the link? I'd like to see this in my VM.
I enjoy Avast :3:
Although I wish it was a pirate voice telling me my definitions have updated.
[QUOTE=luck_or_loss;28644222]I use and recommend MSE to anyone I know.
I got it doing a full scan and it's only using 7.5Mb of ram and the processor stays below 2%.
(Intel Core2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00GHz)[/QUOTE]
The fuck? A standby C#/.NET hello world application would take more RAM than that.
[QUOTE=JWJ;28665675]The fuck? A standby C#/.NET hello world application would take more RAM than that.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I don't know what he means, MsMpEng.exe is using 89,096K of private working set memory just idling for me. During a scan, something is really seriously wrong if it's not using at least 20% of your CPU.
Microsoft may be a bad company in many ways, but MSE 2 doesn't fail to deliver.
[QUOTE=Flubadoo;28665782]Microsoft may be a bad company in many ways, but MSE 2 doesn't fail to deliver.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't call Microsoft a bad company, sure they're closed, but they are one of the reasons that computers are what computers are today, and I think we'll have to appreciate that. They're pretty relaxed with the kinect hacking, and they didn't do anything about the jailbreaking of WP7, other than saying that there's a risk that it'll brick your phone. At the same time they're giving alot of money away, and Windows ME and IE6 is ten years ago now. They make excellent hardware, too, in my opinion.
I could mention alot of companies that are worse.
[QUOTE=Swilly;28665529]I enjoy Avast :3:
Although I wish it was a pirate voice telling me my definitions have updated.[/QUOTE]
Uhh
[url]http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/17/avast-launches-pirate-english-mode/[/url]
Still possible to download and install it with Avast, even though "Talk like a pirate day" is a long time ago.
I've used both and liked either, but i'm currently using NOD32, i'll move on to COMODO sometime, but out of the 2, i prefered avast.
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