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Do Antiviruses Still Slow You Down? (2020) (LTT)
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<blockquote data-quote="videogamer1500" data-source="post: 882688" data-attributes="member: 79127"><p>Of course Antivirus slow down your pcs. The main reason is that its job is to do realtime scanning of your files. Most consumers are lazy and do not manual scan their pcs and many people do not know how to use the Internet properly and may be vulnerable to viruses.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The point is that most users can configurate the antiviruses to not do auto scanning and to only scan files when opened and the disk usage would be way lower and the performance would be way better. Linus just had all the settings on default like scan with Vt-d which makes it worse on Intel cpus and badly effects AMD cpus. If he had a product like Avast, the webpage even tells you to disable that feature in their antivirus. Fsecure did a good job moving from Bitdefender's engine which is the one of the highest on disk usage so that is a plus. I may even use Fsecure because of this because Avira's main program forces you to install bloatware to use their antivirus and Fsecure does not so that is a plus. Avira is a top 5 antivirus and I'm glad that it is getting more respect. Too many antiviruses still rely on Bitdefender's engine. Kaspersky is also really heavy on disk usage because it uses auto scanning to the extreme and Kaspersky for many years has to keep its reputation of being the best antivirus in terms of signatures competing neck in neck with Bitdefender on who can catch the most threats and who can have the best engine. I wish Kaspersky would license their engine to more companies other than the likes of Zone Alarm, Baidu Antivirus, or Defender Pro.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="videogamer1500, post: 882688, member: 79127"] Of course Antivirus slow down your pcs. The main reason is that its job is to do realtime scanning of your files. Most consumers are lazy and do not manual scan their pcs and many people do not know how to use the Internet properly and may be vulnerable to viruses. The point is that most users can configurate the antiviruses to not do auto scanning and to only scan files when opened and the disk usage would be way lower and the performance would be way better. Linus just had all the settings on default like scan with Vt-d which makes it worse on Intel cpus and badly effects AMD cpus. If he had a product like Avast, the webpage even tells you to disable that feature in their antivirus. Fsecure did a good job moving from Bitdefender's engine which is the one of the highest on disk usage so that is a plus. I may even use Fsecure because of this because Avira's main program forces you to install bloatware to use their antivirus and Fsecure does not so that is a plus. Avira is a top 5 antivirus and I'm glad that it is getting more respect. Too many antiviruses still rely on Bitdefender's engine. Kaspersky is also really heavy on disk usage because it uses auto scanning to the extreme and Kaspersky for many years has to keep its reputation of being the best antivirus in terms of signatures competing neck in neck with Bitdefender on who can catch the most threats and who can have the best engine. I wish Kaspersky would license their engine to more companies other than the likes of Zone Alarm, Baidu Antivirus, or Defender Pro. [/QUOTE]
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