anti-virus and frewall

[KoolDrew]

I have read the sticky on what anti virus and frewall are the best but I want to know what would be the best to use on a slow machine? I am lookign for a frewall and AV that is not a total memory hog so the PC does not slow down much and I do not want the firewall to decrease internet speed. But I still want soemthign that works very well.


Any of you ahve any suggestions? Some people have told me that I should just use the built in firewall in windows since it works fine in Sp2 (which I have) and it doesnt seem to tkae up much memory.

 

[The Green Bean]

nod32 and SP2

 

[KoolDrew]

Thanks just installed nod32 and it seems to work very well

 

[Schadenfroh]

im in the middle of writing a round up review of about 9 antivirus programs, the review focuses more on the application itself and the amount of system resources each consumes. I will include links to spywareinfo about the detection rate of viruses, but im focusing on the program itself, expect it in the next few days.

as of right now, symantec NAV 2005 appears to be taking up the least ram, but the program itself is slow. after symantec, avg (free version) is the least memory hog. But like i said, im not finished

 

[KoolDrew]

That will be helpful. I think I may stick with nod32 hough as it scans really fast too. Most take forever and ill leave the house for a while and come back later just to wait for it to be done

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
as of right now, symantec NAV 2005 appears to be taking up the least ram, but the program itself is slow.

NAV05 has 10 services and 2 startup items (TSR's) that run, and it uses roughly 32MB of memory.

Panda Platinum v7 has 1 service, 2 startup items, shows 4 running processes in the XP task manager, and uses roughly 25MB of memory.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
as of right now, symantec NAV 2005 appears to be taking up the least ram, but the program itself is slow.

NAV05 has 10 services and 2 startup items (TSR's) that run. I'll check my system at the office and update this post with the actual memory usage.

Panda Platinum v7 has 1 service, 2 startup items, shows 4 running processes in the XP task manager, and uses roughly 25MB of memory.

Panda

NAV

but i will admit after using panda, i find it MUCH better than NAV.

 

[John]

I'm at the office now, and I just fired up my virus scanning pc. NAV05 uses roughly 32MB of memory.

Shad, be sure you account for all of the running processes related to NAV05, not just the highlighted one in your pic.

Here's a full task manager screenie of NAV05 & Panda (without the firewall enabled)

Panda

NAV05

 

[XBoxLPU]

Currently Kaspersky is taking up about 18mb of memory

Sygate Personal Firewall about 12 mb of memory

I couldn't be happier with both

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: John
Shad, be sure you account for all of the running processes related to NAV05, not just the highlighted one in your pic.

oops, did not notice the highlighted, those highligts were random in all the pics. they wernt supposed to mean anything

thanks for the full pic of nav, mind if i use it in the review? i did not notice some of the other entries in yours. BTW, which of those are the actuall symantec application proccesses?

 

[John]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Currently Kaspersky is taking up about 18mb of memory

Sygate Personal Firewall about 12 mb of memory

I couldn't be happier with both

I use a hardware firewall so I don't have to rely on memory hogging software to filter packets. BTW does the Sygate firewall popup those messages (Like Kerio, Zone Alarm, etc.) to allow/deny apps from accessing the internet?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: John

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Currently Kaspersky is taking up about 18mb of memory

Sygate Personal Firewall about 12 mb of memory

I couldn't be happier with both

I use a hardware firewall so I don't have to rely on memory hogging software to filter packets. BTW does the Sygate firewall popup those messages (Like Kerio, Zone Alarm, etc.) to allow/deny apps from accessing the internet?

yes

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
oops, did not notice the highlighted, those highligts were random in all the pics. they wernt supposed to mean anything

thanks for the full pic of nav, mind if i use it in the review? i did not notice some of the other entries in yours. BTW, which of those are the actuall symantec application proccesses?

Yea I was just kidding around with ya about the highlighted NAV process.

You're welcome to use the screenshot of the task manager. The NAV05 processes that are running:

ccApp
ccEvtMgr
SPBBCSvc
SNDSrvc
ccSetMgr
symlcsvc
NPFMntor
navapsvc

Maybe you can ask the spyware info guy to test Panda Platinum v7.

 

[KoolDrew]

I will be looking forward for that guide. But out of all of them I like NOD32 the best. It does not slowdown my system and scans real fast. I think the SP2 firewall is not good enough though. Is it good enough or should I get something better? And again it cant slow down ym comp a lot like some others do.