Battle Lightest antivirus 2014

[Dani Santos]

what is for you the lightest antivirus this year?

 

[Purshu_Pro]

Webroot Secure Anywhere, Windows Defender, I believe.

 

[Manzai]

Webroot, Avast

 

[Arakasi]

Webroot is incredibly light.
I would say ESET in 2nd after Windefender.

 

[Oxygen]

Not having a antivirus is the lightest thing ever, but windows defender turns on is still light.

 

[conceptualclarity]

I've tried avast! and Webroot. I would say Roboscan, my current AV.

 

[yigido]

Webroot, Avira Free in my experiences. I did not feel them on mys system.

 

[Littlebits]

Avira Free without Web Protection is the lightest one that I have tried.

Enjoy!!

 

[WinXPert]

Comodo HIPS off, Avast w/o DeepScreen and Hardened mode, Qihoo 360 IS

 

[Chromatinfish 123]

Webroot by far, followed by ESET. I'm using the combo and it runs much better than my previous solution, McAfee (provided free from my school).

 

[Behold Eck]

Running Tiranium at the moment on an old xp laptop with only half a gig of ram and it`s feeling very light.

Webroot though would be the lightest ever, ever,ever.

Regards Eck

 

[WinXPert]

With out any main player AV installed, this is what I use instead Threatfire

 

[Overkill]

Strictly by numbers would be Webroot, but I think ESET is the lightest followed by Avast

 

[WinXPert]

Strictly by numbers would be Webroot, but I think ESET is the lightest followed by Avast

Avast has a lower FP compared to ESET SmartSec on my rig

 

[Arakasi]

Depends on what you are calling FP for ESET WinXpert, i have heard you calling several PUnwanted and PUnsafe detections FP when they really are not at all.
Do you have some testing or pictures, i would really enjoy to see what you got my friend.

 

[ifacedown]

1. Webroot
2. ESET / Windows Defender
3. Baidu / Roboscan

 

[ifacedown]

With out any main player AV installed, this is what I use instead Threatfire

Are you using Windows 8.1 Pro?
I hope its compatible with Windows 8.1
So you mean to say ThreatFire can basically handle malware, even without main AV?
Is Threatfire lighter and faster than ESET?

 

[Arakasi]

The only thing with threatfire is it was retired years ago after symantec purchased pctools.
Its no longer in production, doesnt receive updates, etc, etc, i would not know where to begin with how good it might be at handling todays latest threats. I would sure enjoy some testing against the new forms of malware today.

 

[WinXPert]

Are you using Windows 8.1 Pro?
I hope its compatible with Windows 8.1
So you mean to say ThreatFire can basically handle malware, even without main AV?
Is Threatfire lighter and faster than ESET?

I use Threatfire as a second layer of protection on client's PCs. Not compatible with Win 8. I don't recommend using it without any good AV offering real time protection. Yes I've used it many times to remove malwares, sality included.

The only thing with threatfire is it was retired years ago after symantec purchased pctools.
Its no longer in production, doesnt receive updates, etc, etc, i would not know where to begin with how good it might be at handling todays latest threats. I would sure enjoy some testing against the new forms of malware today.

It still have signature updates but not that often anymore. Anyway you can tweak the settings to bump up the protection. It's behavior based, so if a new malware falls into a category of a known behavior, I think Threatfire will flag it as a threat.

 

[King Alpha]

1) Windows Defender
2) ESET
3) Webroot
4) Avira
5) Qihoo 360