Very light AV

[Nikos]

A friend of mine has

a Celereon 1,3GHz with 256MB SDRAM

ancient machine as you see and considerably slow.

He wants though some antivirus protection.
What do you suggest.

I installed Eset v6b but thats heavy too escecially when it scan the system after every login.

Something lighter and still decent perhaps?

Panda cloud perhpas?

 

[Plexx]

A friend of mine has

a Celereon 1,3GHz with 256MB SDRAM

ancient machine as you see and considerably slow.

He wants though some antivirus protection.
What do you suggest.

I installed Eset v6b but thats heavy too escecially when it scan the system after every login.

Something lighter and still decent perhaps?

Panda cloud perhpas?

You can disable the system scan after login by going to ESET UI, Scheduler and untick the first or 2nd entry.

Panda cloud, Kingsoft AV both are light. Avast and AVG are also light.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Panda Cloud AV Free, never failed on all light system i have to install on, users like it silence.

 

[Nikos]

From those you mentioned which one would be the lightest?

I cant install them all it would take all day to his machine.

 

[Nikos]

An also if a pc is infected and one will cleant he infections but some windows elemetns such as services are damaged what one can do to have them on its original state except formatting?

 

[Ink]

Avoid infections, use virtualisation/sandboxing software.

GesWall (free)
Kingsoft AV 2012 (free) + Sandboxie (free or paid)
Returnil (free)

Edit: Just my opinion for old computers.

 

[Nikos]

kingsoft 2012 is as light as panda cloud?

 

[Spirit]

I guess your friend have xp installed on his system
If I have to give him suggestion I have asked him to install Linux Mint with no headache of antivirus and smooth running machine or some other linux distro.

If he want to stick with windows then listen to what other members said above my post

 

[Ink]

From personal experience, using the latest version of Linux on an old computer = bad performance, and slower than Windows in some cases; the PC was from 2001 for Windows XP, Intel P4 and 512MB RAM.

 

[Spirit]

He have only 256 mb ram and celeron processor and on 256 mb ram xp with av i think is more slow than mint or ubuntu

 

[Ink]

If the PC came with Windows, it should run with good enough assuming it's a clean installation. Don't forget, Windows XP can run with very little resources. See Post#6 for my suggestion.

 

[Syntax]

kingsoft 2012 is as light as panda cloud?

According to my opinion. It's much lighter than panda cloud but considering the detection, panda cloud is much more superior.

 

[Spirit]

If the PC came with Windows, it should run with good enough assuming it's a clean installation. Don't forget, Windows XP can run with very little resources. See Post#6 for my suggestion.

The suggestion in post 6 is best but not many user comfortable or know to use this setup

 

[Nikos]

Perhaps install CFW only in his machine hoping D+ will be anough to protect him?

 

[Ink]

According to my opinion. It's much lighter than panda cloud but considering the detection, panda cloud is much more superior.

Even so, Kingsoft AV does some features that Panda Cloud AV Pro doesn't.

I would definitely recommend trying Kingsoft AV 2012.

 

[Nikos]

Okey ill install Kingsoft 2012 to my friend since its lighter.

But what about CFW?

 

[Syntax]

Okey ill install Kingsoft 2012 to my friend since its lighter.

But what about CFW?

If he can handle the pop-ups then yes. Is he an advanced user?

 

[Nikos]

No he is not but ill explaion ti him some things.

Apart from that i beleive CFW is light and D+ will a better job than Kingsoft will.

Wont you agree?

 

[Syntax]

No he is not but ill explaion ti him some things.

Apart from that i beleive CFW is light and D+ will a better job than Kingsoft will.

Wont you agree?

You can put both products in his system. Both are light so his system can handle it.

 

[Plexx]

Using a LXDE based distro or even Xfce should work fine in an old machine. To note however that the Xubuntu is slightly heavier than Lubuntu but still light.