What free antivirus program takes up the least resources?

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What free antivirus program takes up the least resources?

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7 Responses to “What free antivirus program takes up the least resources?”

Samuel Adams says:

August 9, 2010 at 1:41 pm

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Avast or Avira

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Random Time says:

August 9, 2010 at 1:43 pm

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ClamWin, I reflect – it’s open source too!

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pandabear says:

August 9, 2010 at 2:02 pm

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Avira, I’ve had it for months and it works fantastic!

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Brian F says:

August 9, 2010 at 2:27 pm

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I personally have fixed too many machines that had AVG on them and still got infected to recommend it. Avira used to be decent, but I’ve seen a lot of instability in it lately, and really slowing systems down.
I have recently place Avast free home journal on a few people’s machines and it seems to work reasonably well. One thing I really like about Avast is the ability to do a complete system scan during boot-up (Yes, it’ll take an hour do it, but it can find and remove many rootkit viruses that would otherwise hide from many AV harvest.)

Avast also seems pretty light on system resources.

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YoBro says:

August 9, 2010 at 3:08 pm

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Panda’s “Cloud” anti-virus…. but I personally don’t like it but it is the lightest of ANY anti-virus product available now. It does not store it’s own signatures but rather uses the internet (the cloud) to check suspect files against the files stored at Panda…

Check it out here, you may like it:
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/

GOOD LUCK !!!

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Watch me cry a tear in your beer says:

August 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm

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Avast 4.8!!..

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Daniel says:

August 9, 2010 at 4:42 pm

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Check out gizmo’s freeware reviews for antivirus programs and find what you like.

Try it I higly recommend it:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/pc/security-tools.html

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