Battle Emsisoft Internet security or Qihoo 360?

[maanastr]

Hi there.
One of my friend asking me about emsisoft internet security. He is fanboy of emsisoft and want to use for 1 year on his desktop pc.He has 500 gb HD but Ram is very low i.e. 1GB with core 2 duo processor of 2.80GHz.He is using Windows 7 ultimate. Before purchase he ask me a suggestion. I think,as per his pc configuration emisoft will not fit for him. but still want expert comment. is Emsisoft internet security okk for his low configuration pc? or qihoo is best choice for him?

 

[Ink]

Check the minimum system requirements.

 

[jamescv7]

First to consider is upgrade an additional RAM to meet the minimum requirements as possible.

For antivirus well Emsisoft is totally good in terms of protection and performance stability on the system, on the other hand Qihoo as little bit issues about resource consumption when two engines are ticked which until now its pretty inconsistent.

Other known for pretty light in the system are Norton and ESET which have very minimal footprint for their processes but the protection isn't reduce nor sacrifice.

Cloud AV's are totally so fine too in the system since their components are relying much from online + it just depends on system resource for how it handles. (namely Panda Cloud Free or Bitdefender Free)

Companion AV (which can be solo to your system): Crystal Security, Xvirus or SecureAplus which are light also on the system without system slowdowns.

 

[hjlbx]

I did not dare to say this on MT, I was afraid Yes, CIS uses very low system sources with great protection.

Hee hee... afraid you will get blasted by the Anti-Comodo League ?

 

[hjlbx]

There is EAM 30-day trial.

Use it. Your friend will quickly be able to tell whether or not the new EAM version 10 will work on his specific system.

With such low RAM, I would not use full system scan - unless system is idle. Just run installation scan and then keep File Guard activated. File Guard will protect the system in real-time - it was designed specifically for this function.

Advice from others and their recommendations is all fine and good - but in the end, all that matters, is how a soft performs on your specific system.

 

[Tani]

in comparison to eset & emsisoft I've observed eset to be lighter & less battery drainer, (previously was having 4gb now I've 6gb with 5th gen i5), still I use eset & have faced no issues so far. (can't say about emsisoft 10)

 

[Rolo]

I couldn't see justifying either buying hardware upgrades for such an old computer or buying software for such an old computer. Tune it as best as you can to use it for its intended purpose with what you have available to you at zero cost.

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

@maanastr, if your friend is set on Emsisoft, the light alternative, Emsisoft Anti-Malware (as @hjlbx mentioned earlier) offers a free 30 day trial.
Here is an excerpt of the "positive propaganda" from their site:

• "While running, Emsisoft Anti-Malware uses about 200 MB of your RAM which is quite low considering the 10 million signatures that it must load. If your PC has at least 1 GB of RAM, this will be perfect."

https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/antimalware/

I want to believe, and may just try it out myself when our Avast Premier runs out in August!

 

[kiric96]

first of all i would ask you the reason why you want a firewall... if you are always at home or you are behind of a router surely i might tell you that you dont need a firewall at all, but if you go online in public places you may consider to use one.

As for performance EIS in my last test was a quite heavier that was 5 months ago, surely that may have changed now, as for ram usage EAM is pretty decent despite the fact that it uses bitdefender engine about protection, as some people here says that emsisoft engine is pretty bad is not true as they focus on PUP detection and the other engine (bitdefender) focus on malware protection, also emsisoft some times covers the gap that bitdefender lets open.

For qihoo i would say that cloud protection is good but may cause a lot of FPs and protection may not work the way it has to... if i have to choose i would go with another suite... but since low ram, i think that you have no other choice... BUT the old qihoo internet security is the best option, why? because qihoo TS and SE will consume more than 400 mb while scanning if both (offline engines) are on, this doesnt happen with IS however please keep in mind that qihoo is like a plastic knife when offline.

 

[Rolo]

Even with a NAT router, if you have another network device on your network (including a phone), you want a firewall. Good news, though, Windows already has one.

 

[Deleted member 2913]

@maanastr, if your friend is set on Emsisoft, the light alternative, Emsisoft Anti-Malware (as @hjlbx mentioned earlier) offers a free 30 day trial.
Here is an excerpt of the "positive propaganda" from their site:

• "While running, Emsisoft Anti-Malware uses about 200 MB of your RAM which is quite low considering the 10 million signatures that it must load. If your PC has at least 1 GB of RAM, this will be perfect."

https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/antimalware/

I want to believe, and may just try it out myself when our Avast Premier runs out in August!

EAM on my Win 7 64 4GB RAM after boot uses around 230,000 K, after sometime uses around 80,000 K then after sometime settles at 6000 K - 72000 K.
System is running light & browsing speed good.

 

[kiric96]

EAM on my Win 7 64 4GB RAM after boot uses around 230,000 K, after sometime uses around 80,000 K then after sometime settles at 6000 K - 72000 K.
System is running light & browsing speed good.

thats too much which are your settings? in general EAM will not exceed 200 mb... after some time it may decrease, the problem here is if your hard disk is a dinosaur... as emsisoft dump signatures to the disk...

 

[Rolo]

You may be talking about different RAM usages: Commit/Working Set/Private will have different values for the same process. Enable all the columns in Task Manager.

 

[nissimezra]

I couldn't see justifying either buying hardware upgrades for such an old computer or buying software for such an old computer. Tune it as best as you can to use it for its intended purpose with what you have available to you at zero cost.

core 2 duo is not that old and it is enough form most users! to chat on MalwareTips or to read news you dont need more than that. and I wouldn't call this an investment
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/2gb-ddr2-pc2-6400-non-ecc
I'm running 2 vm with C2D E8500 its running fine

 

[Rolo]

I had that CPU at 3.66GHz. It is 7 years old.

Applying v2 of Moore's Law, that's almost 5 generations.

A generation is about 25 years, so that's 125 years old--that's a relic!

If all one did was read news and MalwareTips, one really wouldn't need security software.

 

[nissimezra]

I had that CPU at 3.66GHz. It is 7 years old.

Applying v2 of Moore's Law, that's almost 5 generations.

A generation is about 25 years, so that's 125 years old--that's a relic!

If all one did was read news and MalwareTips, one really wouldn't need security software.

if you visit MalwareTips you should defiantly need a good security software
so my computer is 125 years old? good to know. for me it's enough with 6 gig of ram I can easy run 2 virtual machine
Just to let you know in Montreal many people are still using Pentium 4 and they are very happy with it.

 

[Rolo]

Yes! That's like, 875 in dog years!

Hrmm...maybe I should eBay my old stuff there...

 

[Adhit Prakosho]

if you are always at home or you are behind of a router surely i might tell you that you dont need a firewall at all

you may need to consider how many bots in the wild there to scan your Internet network you are an expert, and you may be able to overcome any attack your network but others may not be able to do that you can do even if you apply some of the rules in the firewall of your router/mikrotik. and usually someone will leave some ports open, it will be a gap for the attacker to the initial attack Although some ISPs would have to close all ports and brought it down

Iam sorry my english is very bad

 

[kiric96]

you may need to consider how many bots in the wild there to scan your Internet network you are an expert, and you may be able to overcome any attack your network but others may not be able to do that you can do even if you apply some of the rules in the firewall of your router/mikrotik. and usually someone will leave some ports open, it will be a gap for the attacker to the initial attack Although some ISPs would have to close all ports and brought it down

Iam sorry my english is very bad

being honest since am not in bad steps nor manage too sensitive information i dont really care about the fact if i need a firewall o not but as a matter of fact most of ISPs (at least here) install you a router which in default setting will discard any packet that doesnt belong to any open port as a default or query, besides some of them implements packet validation... however just the fact that the router is using NAT is enough as the attacker may know that a pc is there but doesnt know how many of them are there in the other side if for some reason theres is a bot inside the intranet well, AV may en charge of that sooner or later... also please notice that windows built in firewall is enough for most of us