Efficient Virus Protection

[kelesh3]

I use mcafee with system scan enabled, and it eats up RAM like there is no tomorrow. It must be taking up over 20MB of ram. Although I have 256MB of ram, this is still unacceptable. Does anybody know of an efficient virus protection program that uses under 10MB of ram total and that does the same thing as mcafee.. i.e. scans files on the fly and also let's me perform periodic drive scans? I don't use email scan or download scan, just system scan.

 

[YaKuZa]

mcafee uses up less resources than norton.

 

[vlieps]

Try AVP. I have read that this is the most powerful antivirus software out there, and I tried it and it eats up almost nothing.
www.avp.ru
They even have demo version

By the way, this is still the only software that can catch the famous CIH virus - yes, surprising, but giants like Norton and Macaffee do not !

 

[madthumbs]

Try InnoculateIT from http://antivirus.cai.com/

It is one of the absolute best, and it's free for personal use.

>>the only software that can catch the famous CIH virus <<

I thought that InnoculateIT did. Are you sure?

 

[SonOfZeuz]

Another vote for InoculateIT - Its FREE with almost daily updates.

 

[bleuiko]

I'm am currently running Norton Antivirus, and it is using 3MB of RAM. Before using Norton, I have used InoculateIT for a very long time, and I COMPLETELY trust and recommend that product... it is FREE and its updates are very good... if you check the coporate edition of InoculateIT costs a lot, yet the personal edition is FREE... USE IT!!! it doesn't take up a lot of RAM, but not as pretty looking as macafee or norton.

 

[Homer]

For light &amp; easy on the system resources it's hard to beat PCcillin. My choice for that reason over NAV, McRappee, and InoculateIt. And PCcillin is as good as NAV at doing it's job, and better than the other two. Panda may be marginally better at detection, but was not an option for me.

 

[madthumbs]

Yeah, I've seen discussions like this before where PC cillin and one other lesser known AV is better or equal to InnoculateIT, but you can't be it's price. Really the best protection is knowledge... I have yet to be infected or even find a virus on my PC.