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What is a good alternative to symantec antivirus

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blackrain

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Symantec has a program that runs in the task manager call RTVScan, which takes up a huge amount of memory, especially during the startup. Startup feels like an eternity. I am wondering whether there are any good alternatives that don't cause such slow startups and memory usage problems.

Systems specs:

P4 1.8 Ghz
640mb ram
BFG 7800GS OC
 
Avira Anti-Vir. There's a free nag version, and it gets more viruses than most, too!
 
My recommendation is Microsoft Security Essentials. Unlike Avira and AVG, it's not an advertisement, there is no pay version. It uses a low amount of resources, starts up quick, and never bothers you with pointless messages like the other two do.
 
dguy6789 said:
My recommendation is Microsoft Security Essentials. Unlike Avira and AVG, it's not an advertisement, there is no pay version. It uses a low amount of resources, starts up quick, and never bothers you with pointless messages like the other two do.
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I'll second this. I've been using it for a month and had some good results. It's among the only six AV's to receive a "Good" on malware detection and removal at AV-comparitives.org as well.
 
I just checked mine right now and MSE is using 3.8MB of ram in the background. It jumped up to 4.4MB when I opened it.

Edit: I'm doing a full system scan, it's sitting at about 4.7MB of ram usage and not rising.
 
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lxskllr said:
Low amount of resources? It ran at over 100mb, and peaked at over 300mb. Compared with Avira using 12mb, with a 140mb peak.
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My process is running at 772k right now. ~3MB while doing a full scan. That is of course im looking at the right process....msseces.exe.
 
phantom404 said:
My process is running at 772k right now. ~3MB while doing a full scan. That is of course im looking at the right process....msseces.exe.
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There's 2 processes. I don't remember what the other one's called.

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MsMpEng.exe Is the other process.
 
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I see it now, had to click show processes from all users. Its going back and forth from about 70MB to 75MB doing a scan. On idle its about 50MB

lxskllr said:
There's 2 processes. I don't remember what the other one's called.

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MsMpEng.exe Is the other process.
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phantom404 said:
I see it now, had to click show processes from all users. Its going back and forth from about 70MB to 75MB doing a scan. On idle its about 50MB
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What O/S are you on? I had the Vista64 version. It should use more resources than the 32bit, but I wouldn't expect a tremendous amount of difference.
 
What version of norton are you using?
2009 was a radical departure form the resources hogs of previous years...
 
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