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Is there a consensus on which AV has the lowest performance impact?
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<blockquote data-quote="IkariGradius" data-source="post: 792896" data-attributes="member: 77461"><p>From my experience Webroot is definitely the lightest. ESET and Norton are also very light on the system. Bitdefender, Kaspersky and Trend Micro tend to be on the heavy side. I've also noticed that Windows Defender tends to be on the heavy side, as most of time my PC will end up running faster with most other AV. On the other hand if you have an i9 with an SSD, you probably won't notice much difference <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>In my opinion RAM usage is not an important factor to see how light a security software is, except on older hardware. You might have an AV that takes 500 mb but won't slow down the system, and vice versa. There are other things to take into consideration, such as how fast files are scanned upon startup, how efficiently the web filter works, etc...</p><p></p><p>But again that's just my personal opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IkariGradius, post: 792896, member: 77461"] From my experience Webroot is definitely the lightest. ESET and Norton are also very light on the system. Bitdefender, Kaspersky and Trend Micro tend to be on the heavy side. I've also noticed that Windows Defender tends to be on the heavy side, as most of time my PC will end up running faster with most other AV. On the other hand if you have an i9 with an SSD, you probably won't notice much difference ;) In my opinion RAM usage is not an important factor to see how light a security software is, except on older hardware. You might have an AV that takes 500 mb but won't slow down the system, and vice versa. There are other things to take into consideration, such as how fast files are scanned upon startup, how efficiently the web filter works, etc... But again that's just my personal opinion. [/QUOTE]
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