Advice Request Lightest complete suite

[Minimalist]

I've tested and used Kaspersky, ESET and Emsisoft.
On my system Emsisoft is lightest (although not a complete suit), Kaspersky and Eset are approx. the same and very light also.

 

[jtshadow92]

McAfee is a pretty solid option if you're looking for a lightweight security suite. You can find the licenses pretty cheap

 

[gery79]

McAfee is a pretty solid option if you're looking for a lightweight security suite. You can find the licenses pretty cheap

suites like McAfee , F-Secure Norton and many others relay heavily on online scanning which in fact ( although i am not a geek or tech guy) i would not trust that much. I know that you gain a lot of speed and lightness but it is somehow risky to gain speed and vulnerability. I had an incident a few weeks ago with a virus that neither Norton nor G-Data could not handle without internet connection . Avast could ( i hate Avast)

 

[ForgottenSeer 89360]

suites like McAfee , F-Secure Norton and many others relay heavily on online scanning which in fact ( although i am not a geek or tech guy) i would not trust that much. I know that you gain a lot of speed and lightness but it is somehow risky to gain speed and vulnerability. I had an incident a few weeks ago with a virus that neither Norton nor G-Data could not handle without internet connection . Avast could ( i hate Avast)

I’m sorry that you’ve had this experience and yes, Avast has good detection and removal. I have an assumption on why you hate them, but they have taken action.
However, these cases of product A doing the job and product B failing happen all time with various products in place. So it’s not really set in stone that GData and Norton “won’t remove threats without connection” and Avast always will.

I also don’t know what kind of threat it was, but you were speaking about USBs on another thread. File infectors and ransomware typically spread via USBs and both cause a disaster if not prevented.

 

[russ0408]

I've been running the new Bitdefender Total Security for a few months now, and i must say I'm really impressed. There have been no system slow downs what so ever, no problems with the antivirus. I have to go in the system tray once in awhile to hit update or show to make sure Bitdefender was working. There was a update today i had to restart my machine. Anybody hear of any changes?

 

[MegenM]

I've been running the new Bitdefender Total Security for a few months now, and i must say I'm really impressed. There have been no system slow downs what so ever, no problems with the antivirus. I have to go in the system tray once in awhile to hit update or show to make sure Bitdefender was working. There was a update today i had to restart my machine. Anybody hear of any changes?

I use Bitdefender Total Security. No such issues at my end. I am getting regular updates as usual.

 

[jackuars]

This is not about demanding games, but false positives from Deepguard.

Plus is clear you taking this personally and going off topic at this point, what I stated is pretty much common sense.

F-Secure has known issues with Games, and is bad advise to suggest it in a Gaming Rig for an average user, which when faced with the issue won't know what to do nor what happened.

I personally ran into issues while using F-Secure myself, in which Deepguard detected one of my games as malware (no warnings from F-Secure), Steam itself throws the error 51 (which is an access violation error), there's more than enough topics about this on the Steam Community (on multiple games) which helped me figure out that Deepguard was causing the issue
This has never happened with any other AV so far, and I hope you not trying to blame my PC for an issue with the Behaviour Blocker, I'm one of the lucky few that can play the latest Cyberpunk game on max settings and stable framerate.

Not sure how F-Secure was in the past, but I didn't have any trouble launching at least 89 games out of 364 total games in my Steam Library while using the latest trial version of F-Secure. Not a big sample to come into a certain conclusion, but still a healthy one I guess. I tried on certain non Steam freeware games as well as I've had to review freeware games in recent past, that came out fine as well.

Issues might have probably been fixed or maybe I was just lucky, will have to see how it works, but my experience has been really good so far.

 

[FireHammer]

Hi, BTS feels very light on my system(Acer A-3 256GB SSD M-2 & 8GB Ram 2.1 GHZ)

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

hmm comodo firewall should be one of the lightest

 

[Ink]

Windows Security (Windows 10 only).

Requirements: DYOR.

Third party suites are messy, require on-going subscriptions to "Stay Protected", occasionally break the OS.

 

[FireHammer]

Hi, @Spawn, I have not ever experienced any sort of problems with Bitdefender.
And before Bitdefender, I had McAfee Total Protection, never broke the system(Windows 7)but used a lot of Ram & CPU.
Kind Regards Firehammer.

 

[FireHammer]

Hi @russ0408 there was a program update for Bitdefender Total Security(and other versions)today, and you are right, it demanded to reboot your system.
I have not any idea about how often program updates occur, but definitions updates are several times a day, sometimes every two hours.

 

[Pat MacKnife]

I've been running the new Bitdefender Total Security for a few months now, and i must say I'm really impressed. There have been no system slow downs what so ever, no problems with the antivirus. I have to go in the system tray once in awhile to hit update or show to make sure Bitdefender was working. There was a update today i had to restart my machine. Anybody hear of any changes?

Bitdefender Total Security 2020 25.0.10.52 (Program update)
but no changelog

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