Battle Lightest antivirus 2014

[Dani Santos]

what is for you the lightest antivirus this year?

 

[Arakasi]

I have to agree about the statements on disposing things like garbage collection etc.
I do a lot of programming in .NET and have to concur.
Also C and C++ make very light applications, ahem *cough* ESET.
They use assembly as well though.

 

[indra11tng]

Kompas Antivirus

 

[ifacedown]

Never really paid attention to that

Well, KaptainBug just showed what I meant.

 

[ifacedown]

you want to play in the major league? use Appguard or ExeRadarPro, no real-time engine, no hassle, no resources eaters.

And VoodooShield... Version 2 is almost finished, and will be much faster than 1.3

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Very very good point Cats!
I love throwing a wrench in the engine though.
What about users who send hundreds of e-mails using ms outlook or something.
I think Microsoft's security could fall short, and only the common sense and sandbox could save them.

When common sense is taking a nap, (hopefully not too often) it's good to know users of e-mail client programs can fall in the sandbox with no serious injuries.

Thanks, Arakasi! Keep throwing those friendly flying wrenches! They make the engines more fun!

 

[Deleted member 178]

And VoodooShield... Version 2 is almost finished, and will be much faster than 1.3

I beta tested the v2 until two month, it had a lot of issues on my win8 , i had to gave up. Will check it again to see how it perform. I also wait ReHips , seems an excellent concept.

 

[alexp79]

Webroot and avira for me

 

[Deleted member 21043]

I have to agree about the statements on disposing things like garbage collection etc.
I do a lot of programming in .NET and have to concur.
Also C and C++ make very light applications, ahem *cough* ESET.
They use assembly as well though.

You can actually call the Garbage Collector (GC.Collect) in VB, but I wouldn't recommend it because it is meant to be automatic and can cause problems. One problem I know I have had in the paste with forcing it to work and so on, is a unresponsive User Interface which is no good.

 

[Dima007]

what is for you the lightest antivirus this year?

1. Webroot
2. ESET as always

 

[conceptualclarity]

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.

Why don't you do that when you have the time, Araakasi? I'm intrigued by ThreatFire after reading the glowing reviews of it. I downloaded the last version but haven't installed it yet.

 

[Karl Hustler]

I need light and free as I got a PC made in Bedrock
Roboscan over 360 IS?

 

[conceptualclarity]

I need light and free as I got a PC made in Bedrock
Roboscan over 360 IS?

I haven't tried Qihoo 360. I have tried avast!, Webroot, and Roboscan. Roboscan is definitely the lightest of those three. I haven't heard any other users claim Qihoo 360 is lighter than Webroot or avast! My clear impression would be that Roboscan is lighter than Qihoo 360.

 

[marg]

I haven't tried Qihoo 360. I have tried avast!, Webroot, and Roboscan. Roboscan is definitely the lightest of those three. I haven't heard any other users claim Qihoo 360 is lighter than Webroot or avast! My clear impression would be that Roboscan is lighter than Qihoo 360.

You can put 360 TS in Performance mode. It should be lighter on ram.

 

[conceptualclarity]

You can put 360 TS in Performance mode. It should be lighter on ram.

RAM's not the only issue. Don't forget CPU usage. Microsoft Security Essentials' intolerable surges in CPU usage ground my computer to a halt and twice drove me to other AVs.

 

[marg]

Thats a valid point. I forgot about CPU usage But doesn't any computer made after say 2010 or after have the multiple processor CPU's installed? So, there really should not be a problem I would think?

 

[conceptualclarity]

But doesn't any computer made after say 2010 or after have the multiple processor CPU's installed? So, there really should not be a problem I would think?

A lot of us are on computers that are pre-2010, although for me there is light at the end of the tunnel. I think even with new computers there's probably a lot of performance difference between an ordinary AMD and a high-grade Intel.

 

[ifacedown]

I beta tested the v2 until two month, it had a lot of issues on my win8 , i had to gave up. Will check it again to see how it perform. I also wait ReHips , seems an excellent concept.

I haven't tried Qihoo 360. I have tried avast!, Webroot, and Roboscan. Roboscan is definitely the lightest of those three. I haven't heard any other users claim Qihoo 360 is lighter than Webroot or avast! My clear impression would be that Roboscan is lighter than Qihoo 360.

Hello.

I have tried Avast, Webroot and Roboscan. Surely Roboscan is light, but for my experience Webroot is still lighter! Also, Roboscan adds more time to boot up compared to Webroot which almost adds nothing.

But after that boot, Roboscan is so light, but still Webroot is lighter. About detection, Roboscan trumps over Webroot.

 

[Littlebits]

Avira is really light as from my experience too. Do you consider it to be lighter even from Windows 8 Defender?
I don't think so

On Windows 8, Windows Defender is the lightest.
On Windows 7, Avira without Web Protection.

Enjoy!!

 

[marg]

I used Avira quite a while ago & it was OK at basic protection. They have since upped their game plan & I read its really good now.

 

[Naughtyhunter]

i used AVG, avira, MSE, Avast!, Kaspersky IS, Norton IS, bitdefender IS.
With me, theyre all good, and lightweight but Bitdefender