Small & Free Antivirus A Reality???
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Small & Free Antivirus A Reality???
After years of free Avast! and Free AVG Antivirus, I am sick of thier seemingly large "footprint"!
Are there any rea,l freeware, low resorce antivirus apps that do at least a decent job of email scanning, on-demand scanning, and file access "on the fly" scanning?
Is this just a pipe dream? If so why?
I have 1gig of ram but I am sick of countless apps that "need" 50+MB to run effectivly.
Maybe it's my old age, but it seems to me apps used to be streamlined and clean coded to do thier job effectivly and without useing gobs of CPU & RAM!
- martini_thief
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Unfortunately wit hthe relatively low cost and the desire to run certain applications that need it, coders have gotten very lazy and written some very poor code.
Another sideeffect is things like Visual Studio which makes anyone able to program with no thought to code at all.
Other then that.. I do not have an answer to your question.
- Neuromancer
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Unfortunately, as technology has advanced, so have the tools to undo it (Malware/Virus stuff); I've spent many years eradicating malware from users' systems and the tools to do it often come at high price and take "gobs" of CPU/RAM as well. There are individual tools, many I use can be found at Sysinternals.com to help keep malware at bay and are free. The smallest footprint for a free AV program that I've found that works in almost any Windows system is AVG. It works with most firewalls seamlessly and takes little RAM resources. If you are running 1GB RAM, perhaps you should take a look at your startup programs and running services to see where your RAM is going.
I don't know where you get 50+MB . On my rig AVG is 27MB and ZA is 7MB, certainly way less than something like Norton. Oh, I use the free versions of both and am quite happy. That's something like %3.5 for peace of mind.
I do agree that the coders are sloppy but with 1GB rigs becoming more common, more proggies will use that. It's been going on since the beginning.
I do agree that the coders are sloppy but with 1GB rigs becoming more common, more proggies will use that. It's been going on since the beginning.
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- augie
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Only 27MB? I just ran it to and if you totall up all 7 services running in taskmanager that are AVG i think even 50MB is kinda lite. I tried running but it was just way to bulky for me. But I am jaded coming from NOD32. 2 services running totalling 23MB (I can drop that too 20 flat if I eliminate the control panel booting at start up... but I use it a bit so I keep it running.)
Hmmm I just thought of something.. I did not have it installed long... so perhaps it was getting used to the system and shrinks as you run it more???
And yah it has been happening for a long time... (about the coders) It will hit a critical mass eventually when people will complain rather then upgrading to 8GB of RAM for their home PC...
Hmmm I just thought of something.. I did not have it installed long... so perhaps it was getting used to the system and shrinks as you run it more???
And yah it has been happening for a long time... (about the coders) It will hit a critical mass eventually when people will complain rather then upgrading to 8GB of RAM for their home PC...
- Neuromancer
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Hmm, I only see four processes.
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- augie
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augie wrote:Hmm, I only see four processes.
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Yup I see only 4 as well I ran 3 or 4 differnet AVs that week so I might have gotten it confused with avast...
Nice and trim though aint it Free and not much larger then NOD32
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Thanks for confirming that Neuro.
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