Battle Good detection rates and system resource usage for Low end Gaming PC?

[yarr]

Free or Paid does not really matter at the moment. I'm trying to help my younger sister set up her first gaming PC. She is pretty smart when it comes to browsing the internet and avoiding security risks but I would still like there to be something solid to help just in case she slips up. At the moment we have licenses for ESET Internet Security and Emsisoft. Problem is it's not the greatest computer, mostly my older parts. so we would like make sure it's good (doesn't have to be the best) and doesn't use too many system resources (she's only using 4GB of hand-me-down RAM) Remember this PC was meant for gaming and that's about it so 4GB is kind of meh. I thought ESET would be perfect but she really doesn't like it for whatever reason and I heard Emsisoft can take up a lot of resources. My gripe with Emsisoft is how it's always thinking random files or suspicious or infected when I know the files are fine. Whenever I have security related questions I always come here first. You are all such a HUGE help. Thank you!

Kind Regards,
yarr

(P.S. If I found myself in the wrong forum section please let me know and I will get that fixed right away.

 

[Venustus]

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[Moonhorse]

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[Wraith]

ESET is extremely light on resources while providing top notch protection. I don't know why your sister doesn't like it but for a gaming PC you can't go wrong with it. In fact, I use it on my gaming rig. Panda is also extremely light on resources but the detection is nowhere as good as ESET or Avast. Another option is Avast Free. But make sure to do a custom install and select only the four shields and set Hardened Mode to Aggressive. No matter which antivirus you use, pair it up with NoVirusThanks Sys Hardener and use it to lock down the system.

 

[yarr]

ESET is extremely light on resources while providing top notch protection. I don't know why your sister doesn't like it but for a gaming PC you can't go wrong with it. In fact, I use it on my gaming rig. Panda is also extremely light on resources but the detection is nowhere as good as ESET or Avast. Another option is Avast Free. But make sure to do a custom install and select only the four shields and set Hardened Mode to Aggressive. No matter which antivirus you use, pair it up with NoVirusThanks Sys Hardener and use it to lock down the system.

I talked her into using ESET. Do you have any configuration tips?

 

[Local Host]

I talked her into using ESET. Do you have any configuration tips?

Just use ESET, don't fill the PC with Security Software as it goes against the objective.

 

[bribon77]

The best thing would be to try one by one and see how it behaves on your computer. "Each PC is a world"

 

[Al-Faqir]

I think you should take a look at Bullguard Internet Security. This should give you a good detection rate; it uses Bitdefender engine. It won't slow down you PC and it has a dedicated gaming mode.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Dont use any AV for any gaming rigs, use an anti-exe like NVT OSarmor (set & forget made for noobs , no real time scanning that slow down the system and reduce PFS, easy to add exclusions, etc...)

 

[artek]

Cylance is very light.

 

[Wraith]

I talked her into using ESET. Do you have any configuration tips?

Ask @RoboMan for assistance in configuring ESET IS. He has helped me to configure it and so far its working like a badass

 

[amico81]

you can create a rule to stop realtime protection during gameplay ( with kaspersky for example)

 

[Wraith]

Just use ESET, don't fill the PC with Security Software as it goes against the objective.

Exactly ESET properly configured alongwith safe habits is sufficient. Just make sure all your softwares and OS are up to date and always keep backups.

 

[Deleted Member 3a5v73x]

Cylance is very light.

Not "smart" to use it alone tho. Nobody ain't gonna even look at it, why even bother trying to suggest it? Eh. For normal people Eset is better.

 

[klaken]

I play on a pc with i3 1 generation and a 310 notbook ... It's 7 years old ..
The only AV that does not bother or slow me down is the COMODO cloud av.

 

[artek]

Not "smart" to use it alone tho. Nobody ain't gonna even look at it, why even bother trying to suggest it? Eh. For normal people Eset is better.

It's fine using it alone.

 

[Deleted Member 3a5v73x]

It's fine using it alone.

I believe that, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying someone gonna have a hard time trusting C or comparing it to Eset if its hot AV for gamers PC around world based on how lightweight it is, since C scans only PE's but doesn't protect your network or browsing, someone who isn't techy or more dedicated towards security should use another solution, like Eset. With tweaked Eset you can go braindead online, where with naked C you need to know and how to avoid the most common ways of infection vectors, you can't just allow unkown Word macro and pray Microsoft Jesus to not get infected.

 

[RoboMan]

I talked her into using ESET. Do you have any configuration tips?

Q&A - ESET configuration thread

 

[Kuttz]

Kaspersky Free which is as light as Avast Free with top notch detection rates. If wanted you can complement it with OS armor as well which doesn't add any noticable resource usage.

 

[Kuttz]

use an anti-exe like NVT OSarmor (set & forget made for noobs , no real time scanning that slow down the system and reduce PFS, easy to add exclusions, etc...)

Before adding exclusions one needs to be sure that the file is not a malware right ?