Battle Kaspersky IS or Vipre IS

[malbky]

I have a license of KIS and VIPRE IS. Which should I install on my PC and why?

 

[Plexx]

My personal opinion, VIPRE.

KIS is good but you will need a powerful pc to run it without any slowdows etc.

Thats my personal opinion.
There are several topics about KIS system impact/detection/removal etc (I believe more than VIPRE).

Hope it helps.

 

[Imran]

Vipre IS is better in my opinion
KIS will slow you down

 

[malbky]

I have a dual core with 2gb. I wanted to know will I sacrifice in protection by using Vipre rather than KIS?

 

[Deleted member 178]

I have a dual core with 2gb.

if with Win7, 2gb Ram is already not enough.

 

[Ink]

if with Win7, 2gb Ram is already not enough.

Could be classed as minimum, but one of ours PC's had 2GB RAM and ran Windows Vista until I upgraded it to Windows 7. It uses under 1.2GB of RAM when in use, and about 800MB idle. Superfetch works great when you're running out of RAM.

OT:
I have 3GB of RAM on Windows 8 and it's good enough for me.
As I experienced last night, when IE10 crashed after installing Visicom Media .



After IE10 closed, Superfetch did it's magic.

 

[MrXidus]

I have a dual core with 2gb.

if with Win7, 2gb Ram is already not enough.

Windows 7 system requirements

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/products/system-requirements

Windows 8 Release Preview System Requirements

1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch

- http://www.windowsvalley.com/windows-8-system-requirements/

I'm currently using an old Acer Aspire 5741 laptop with Windows 8 Release Preview 64-Bit with 2GB of RAM, i3 2nd Gen.

Screenshot: (Programs running: Just Firefox)

This laptop had Windows 7 before and around idle used 900MB and in use about 1.2GB. Having 2GB was enough.

Bottom line is all PC's are different but with Windows 8 there is certainly an improvement with how it handles RAM,

If I get the time I'll try Kaspersky and see if it gives me any slow down as I've seen many members claiming it's a heavy product. Been too long since I tried Kaspersky.