Antivirus with low memory usage

[Sureshot324]

Which antivirus would you recommend if low resource usage was the most important thing, but of course a good detection rate is important as well? Both noton antivirus 2004 and panda titanium seem to use 30-40mb of ram for me, and i'd like to find one that uses a lot less.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Grisoft's Free version of AVG. uses less than 5mb of memory, here is proof. i have used both and avg seems to update more often than symantec.

 

[Sureshot324]

According to all antivirus roundups i've found on the net, AVG has a poor detection rate compared to most other well known antivirus programs. Unfortunatly the reviews i've found don't really comment on memory usage.

 

[John]

NAV 2003 uses roughly 15MB (3 processes) and is friendlier than NAV 2004.

 

[Looney]

Panda. Not only does it take up less than 2 megs in memory, it's virus list is updated multiple times a day (at least 4 that i've counted), and has one of the best detection rate out there. Not only that, but it's FREE!

Go to this site http://us.pandasoftware.com/products/platinum7/ to download the trial...

then go here http://www.pandasecurity.com/survey/ to apply for a free registration! You can thank me later.

 

[Raincity]

NOD32 and Dr. Web have good detection rate and is low on the resources.

 

[crazycarl]

Originally posted by: Hardcore
Panda. Not only does it take up less than 2 megs in memory, it's virus list is updated multiple times a day (at least 4 that i've counted), and has one of the best detection rate out there. Not only that, but it's FREE!

Go to this site http://us.pandasoftware.com/products/platinum7/ to download the trial...

then go here http://www.pandasecurity.com/survey/ to apply for a free registration! You can thank me later.

my panda takes up 35 megs of ram on xp........ how did you get it it down to 2 megs?
4 processes: Avengine.exe, PAVFIRES.EXE, Pavsrv51.exe, APVXDWIN.EXE which I believe are all from panda.

 

[ZimZum]

Originally posted by: Raincity
NOD32 and Dr. Web have good detection rate and is low on the resources.

Yep, Nod32 uses the fewest resources of any realtime antivirus. I switched from Norton 2004 to Nod32 and everything from my boot time to Video encoding is noticeable faster.

 

[Zepper]

Trendmicro.com PC-Cillin (available for free with many items like mobos, VCom's SystemSuite 5, etc.) uses little resources also the AV from Computer Associates (eTrust EZArmor) had a 1 yr free trial availble via the M$ web site.
.bh.