Lightweight Anti Virus Prog suggestions Please.
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Lightweight Anti Virus Prog suggestions Please.
09-07-2013 4:03 PM
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the internals are...
Intel Atom cpu N450 @ 1.66GHz
Installed Memory 1.00 Gb
32 bit OS
Not sure if I can upgrade the memory on this.. (could find out.... )
Have been running AVAST FREE on it since I got it in Nov last year... I only use it occasionally when I am out and about... but it seems to take forever ( at least 5 minutes ) before it is usable, and the first time I try to access google (Firefox) or Thunderbird email... it takes an age and a half before the pages load up...
So.. I`m thinking AVAST is the culprit, and am looking for a antivirus prog (FREE) that is not a resource hog..... any suggestions...
( WIndows defender is installed, but that is only Malware on W7 - not an Antivirus prog until W8 )...
Was thinking of AVIRA... ?
Re: Lightweight Anti Virus Prog suggestions Please.
09-07-2013 4:15 PM
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I am sure some people will say essentials is rubbish, but I like it.
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09-07-2013 4:21 PM
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09-07-2013 4:22 PM
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Re: Lightweight Anti Virus Prog suggestions Please.
09-07-2013 4:35 PM
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Windows Essentials (formerly Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Installer) is a suite of freeware applications by Microsoft that aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, and security services. Essentials programs are designed to integrate well with each other, with Microsoft Windows, and with other Microsoft web-based services such as SkyDrive and Outlook.com, so that they operate as a “seamless whole”.[1][2]
do I really need to have a "suite of freeware applications" that
"aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing,"
Which are serviced by other applications.....
( email is Thunderbird..... Don`t do "instant messaging "....... Don`t do ... Photo Sharing, ( except on Flickr or email). got my own blogsite already) ... just to get ......
" security services"
Which are not specifically detailed in the above explanation.
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09-07-2013 4:38 PM
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09-07-2013 4:59 PM
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Privacy concerns
Sending files or even checksums of segments of files out to a remote server to be processed is a severe privacy concern. The only guarantee of privacy in this case depends on both the goodwill of the company and security at their end. If Panda's servers are compromised, either by a criminal who works for them or by a hacker, users' security is compromised.[6]
gives me the shivers, more than a virus attack! ! ! ....
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09-07-2013 5:28 PM
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download
Well worth a look.
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09-07-2013 5:56 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Security_Essentials
The wiki item may well be "out of date"... but it is strange that no "update" on the severity of the "impersonators" has been filed with them... or published.... leaving it "in limbo" as to whether it is "safe" to trust MSE if it can`t deal with an "imposter" of itself.... ( no ref given either way on that question )
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09-07-2013 6:00 PM
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I'd be suspicious of anything by Microsoft.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
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09-07-2013 6:22 PM
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09-07-2013 6:29 PM
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09-07-2013 7:53 PM
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After all the OP wanted a virus scanner. why on earth I pointed him to an e-mail, photo sharing, instant messaging, blog publishing, familly security software I have no idea.
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09-07-2013 8:58 PM
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Quote from: shutter Is that the same as...... Avira Anti Virus? or is it a lighter version?
It's not a super-lite version but you got the name right.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Lightweight Anti Virus Prog suggestions Please.
09-07-2013 9:05 PM
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I never did "time" the bootup before, so it will not be a "scientific result" if/when the boot time changes because of the change of AV... same thing for the progs delay
Thanks for your input guys... much appreciated.
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