Virus Scanners....

[curtisbouvier]

I'm just curious, upon reading alot of reviews, it looks like Bit Defender comes out on top of them all (or the vast majority anyway)

My question is this, Alot of Virus scanners are very heavy on the system in terms of cpu usage, memory, and etc.

Nod32 is Fantastic when speaking about performance, I can play my games with minimal performance hit from nod32, it uses little to no memory, etc. etc. And it remains powerful.

But Nod32 isnt anywhere in the top 10 virus scanners, does any one know if bit defender takes a heavy load alot like Norton antivirus?, or is it light on the system like nod32?

And what would you people recomend anyway?

thanks.

 

[MrChad]

Kaspersky has the best detection rates available.

AOL's Active Virus Shield is based on Kaspersky's detection engine and is available for free. I'm using it at home and highly recommend it.

 

[apinomus]

What are your sources for determining the rank of virus scanners?

I use NOD32 because of it's small memory footprint and because I'm responsible enough to not expose myself to the great majority of viruses out there, so I feel comfortable with it even if it's not "the best."

I haven't used BitDefender so I can't comment on how it is on system memory.

 

[yosuke188]

NOD32

 

[curtisbouvier]

thats exactly how I feel, I don't ever expose myself to area's that contain viruses, but i do have alot of important projects, that would really hurt if I ever did lose due to a virus. So i'd rather be safe than sorry.

And Nod32 has satisfied me very much so far.

I used to use Norton Anti Virus, but it was just ridiculous on the system.