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.

 

[RoboMan]

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

Most default-deny will whitelist a huge amount of files right after installed, so if you're infected you shouldn't be installing it

 

[omidomi]

Its seems she is smart enough for not "choose" Eset
Ok we have many choices to choose , Avast , Webroot, Avira , Panda.... and Also @Umbra total security Pro

 

[Wraith]

Its seems she is smart enough for not "choose" Eset
Ok we have many choices to choose , Avast , Webroot, Avira , Panda.... and Also @Umbra total security Pro

Personally I wouldn't install Avira on a gaming rig but yeah webroot is a very light AV for a gaming PC.

 

[artek]

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.

Eh I've already stated how I feel about browsing protection and third party firewalls. I've also had tons of problems with ESET while gaming. Cylance is the only AV that I haven't noticed on my gaming PC. Webroot is another great choice.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Its seems she is smart enough for not "choose" Eset
Also @Umbra total security Pro

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[RoboMan]

best in the universe:

Off-Topic - Umbra Total Security Test and Review

LOL Umbra Total Security looks like something Cylance would claim their product actually does

 

[Wraith]

Eh I've already stated how I feel about browsing protection and third party firewalls. I've also had tons of problems with ESET while gaming. Cylance is the only AV that I haven't noticed on my gaming PC. Webroot is another great choice.

I've heard pretty good things about Cylance. Too bad their website does not offer a trial and even when I tried to purchase it, it says that due to legal constraints it's not available in my region. I'm currently trying out the 30 days evaluation of Appguard 4.8.

 

[Local Host]

Its seems she is smart enough for not "choose" Eset
Ok we have many choices to choose , Avast , Webroot, Avira , Panda.... and Also @Umbra total security Pro

Stay away from Avast, Avira and Panda.
Both Avast and Avira can be resource hogs, although Panda is light, it's protection is bad compared to the competition and leaves lots of trash behind when you try to remove it.
I already suggested ESET, as it's light and effective on it's own, you only need to configure it properly.
I myself used Kaspersky on a gaming rig and was more than happy with it, it had no performance hit whasoever and unlike ESET it comes properly configured out of the box.
So either ESET or Kaspersky will do for what you want.

 

[klaken]

If she does not want ESET we can not force her ..
Use comodo cloud is very light ..

 

[outlawxtorn]

I personally use Cylance+OSarmor+Heimdal+Syshardener with basically no impact on performance. Recommended by @ForgottenSeer 58943

 

[Deleted member 178]

I'm currently trying out the 30 days evaluation of Appguard 4.8.

To my knowledge, there is no v4.8 of Appguard, it is either 4.4.6.1 or v5 or v6...
Maybe it is a fake weaponized version and you are actually backdoored LOL

 

[509322]

I'm currently trying out the 30 days evaluation of Appguard 4.8.

Where did you get it ? There is no legitimate AppGuard version avaialble today that offers a 30 day trial.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

I personally use Cylance+OSarmor+Heimdal+Syshardener with basically no impact on performance. Recommended by @ForgottenSeer 58943

Fabulous zero weight, highly protective combination.

 

[Wraith]

To my knowledge, there is no v4.8 of Appguard, it is either 4.4.6.1 or v5 or v6...
Maybe it is a fake weaponized version and you are actually backdoored LOL

sorry, my bad the version number is 4.2.8.1.

 

[Wraith]

Fabulous zero weight, highly protective combination.

I've heard that Heimdal only blocks threats but does not remove them. Is it true ?

 

[Wraith]

Where did you get it ? There is no legitimate AppGuard version avaialble today that offers a 30 day trial.

I was just googling for appguard and I got the installer. Its around a 20mb executable. I scanned it with ESET before installing.

 

[Deleted member 178]

@devjit2018 ok, this is more like it then.

Normally you shouldn't have it ^^

 

[Sammo]

One of our computers is using Panda Dome Free, Voodooshield Pro and Sandboxie. Very Lite.

 

[Wraith]

@devjit2018 ok, this is more like it then.

Normally you shouldn't have it ^^

Well I guess than I got lucky in finding the installer since I was extremely interested in evaluating Appguard after hearing about it from MT. So far I'm liking it. No performance impact with and works well with ESET and SD.

 

[Wraith]

One of our computers is using Panda Dome Free, Voodooshield Pro and Sandboxie. Very Lite.

If you swap VS with ERP it will be lighter.