A good anti-virus...

[FaRReR]

I'm looking for a free anti-virus program which has the usual features; scan on demand, auto-updating, etc.

It has to not take up more than 10 mb of ram, because AVG 8 is a complete RAM hog... it makes my computer run slow

Thanks in advance.

The less CPU and RAM it takes up, the better!

Oh, and I want it to be a... slightly... good... one?

 

[Diablo1123]

Heard ClamWin is pretty good


Or do what I do, don't run anti-virus.

=D

 

[da_head]

wth? not more than 10mb...? how much ram does ur computer have? O.O

umm i think kaspersky is also good.

 

[Prophet]

http://www.spywareterminator.com/ it has an option in it to integrate winclamav.

It works quite well, protects the PC for virtually all malware, be it viral or spyware.

 

[Ferrariman]

Spybot S&D is decent, same goes for Avira, Avast, etc.

 

[phoood]

Common Sense 2009 is great, takes up about 0% of my cpu's cycles.

fprot isn't free.

 

[alltooamorous]

AVG Anti Virus is free and it works pretty well. It does get false-positives occasionally. Not sure how big it is though.

 

[FaRReR]

AVG Anti Virus is free and it works pretty well. It does get false-positives occasionally. Not sure how big it is though.

Uh, did you read my first post...?


And for da_head - I think either 256mb or 512. not sure

 

[UltraMagnus]

avast! antivirus is good

or just switch to linux

no anti virus needed!

 

[tKo HaXoR]

i second avast! It has sniffed out many viruses and trojans. It actually got rid of the stupid virus that kept adding itself to flash drives

I was so happy when it got rid of it. It is free just register it to your email and they send you a registration code that lasts you about a year. It automatically updates the virus database and it can run a boot scan so those pesky autorun viruses that attach themselves to explorer.exe get removed! You cant go wrong

 

[natkoden]

Avira

 

[delta123]

nod32 version 2 not 3.

 

[wohoo]

Nod32 is the best around, get it and you won't regret it :

 

[OSW]

Yep NOD32 is the best i've used. I've tried norton (so horrible) and AVG but they can't compare.

nod32 version 2 not 3.

why? i upgraded to 3 and haven't noticed any downsides.

if there is good enough reason, i might downgrade.

 

[Sarvesh50]

i am using nod32 and ill be using nod32 forever.

 

[spotanjo3]

I had AVG and always got some false positive virus so I change it to Nod32 and I am happy with it. It's great and read at google.com for best program and Nod32 is one of them.

 

[Medic]

NOD32 has been great for me.

 

[Prime]

NOD32

 

[arctic_flame]

I don't recommend ClamWin, as although it is fast and has a low memory footprint, it seems to have a very small database.

 

[Cyan]

I used Avira (free) for many years, but few weeks ago it didn't detect anything when my system files were deleted every days one by one.

I reinstalled and I'm now trying NOD32 trial version.
some people here said to use a fix, so I installed one, but right after that, I kept getting Kernel32 error every minutes or two.

I removed the fix, and it is now working great.
it sometime still crash because of kernel32, but NOD never close itself in the tray, the service run again automatically.

I didn't use it long enough to tell if it is very good or not, but I like having many options to choose manually

for information, my NOD32 is using 38Mo of Ram.
I don't know if there are any antivirus with 10Mo.


Edit :
yes, I'm on XP pro