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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Holly" data-source="post: 1096677" data-attributes="member: 90494">I prefer an AV that is lighter on CPU. My daily driver laptop has 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD so I have plenty of memory and there is hardly anything on my SSD so that&#039;s not an issue either. I just don&#039;t like it when one AV/program or another slows my computer down. At the same time I don&#039;t want to sacrifice security either so I have tried to find the happy medium. I stopped using Linux about 6 weeks ago. Not sure if I will ever go back to Linux either. I am on Windows 11 23H2 again now and started out with WD by itself on all default settings. Then I added my old lifetime MBAM Premium license with the MB Browser Guard extension in Edge and Firefox. FF ran OK like that but Edge slowed down really bad. As a process of elimination to solve the problem I first removed the browser guard. That helped a little but my laptop really snapped back to normal after I removed the entire MBAM app. I am using the free Avast One Basic now. Avast uses less than half the RAM that MBAM did, the laptop is really quick no matter which browser I use and CPU usage is way down too. I don&#039;t use FF enough for it to make much difference but I do still use MB Browser Guard in FF. I think I have a very good balance between speed and security now. I probably would have been ok with just WD but I wanted something stronger than WD by itself.C.H.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Holly, post: 1096677, member: 90494"] I prefer an AV that is lighter on CPU. My daily driver laptop has 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD so I have plenty of memory and there is hardly anything on my SSD so that's not an issue either. I just don't like it when one AV/program or another slows my computer down. At the same time I don't want to sacrifice security either so I have tried to find the happy medium. I stopped using Linux about 6 weeks ago. Not sure if I will ever go back to Linux either. I am on Windows 11 23H2 again now and started out with WD by itself on all default settings. Then I added my old lifetime MBAM Premium license with the MB Browser Guard extension in Edge and Firefox. FF ran OK like that but Edge slowed down really bad. As a process of elimination to solve the problem I first removed the browser guard. That helped a little but my laptop really snapped back to normal after I removed the entire MBAM app. I am using the free Avast One Basic now. Avast uses less than half the RAM that MBAM did, the laptop is really quick no matter which browser I use and CPU usage is way down too. I don't use FF enough for it to make much difference but I do still use MB Browser Guard in FF. I think I have a very good balance between speed and security now. I probably would have been ok with just WD but I wanted something stronger than WD by itself. C.H. [/QUOTE]

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