Please Suggest an AV for WIn 7, which is light on the system
August 5th, 2016
I use Avast on my XP, i’ve had very bad experiences with AVG, norton n McAfee n XP.
But my Avast doesn’t detect keyloggers
Thanks In Advance.
Personly I’m a fan of Nod32 it’s a nice little program and it has the BEST Anti-Spam filter for emails.
However, if it wasn’t for the anti-spam I’d use Kaspersky (I’m unsure if you can use that on Windows 7) I think you can but I’m not sure.
I don’t know how hard it is to find them, but I do have trial reseters for both. Pm me if you cant find one
NOD32 is less of a resource hog than Kaspersky in my experience.
I’m using Kaspersky on my laptop (Core 2 Duo, 1.83GHz, 2GB RAM) and NOD32 on my desktop (Athlon X2 3.2GHz, 4GB RAM) both with Win7, and aside from not having to find keys every time they get blacklisted, it’s much less of a performance nuisance.
Microsoft security essentials is what most people swear by so i would go with that. Personally my favourite is prevx for it’s lightning scanning speed – Full scan takes about 2mins on my 500gb harddrive. But the problem with prevx is that it’s not rated at av-comparatives so it might miss a few viruses.
I would say your going to need more ram or you will have lagging issues when your scanning no matter what, I would give Kaspersky a try to see how well your PC handles it.
Try Avira or Avast. Those are very light and easy on resources and very good on detection. I use Avira and eats up only 20MB of my RAM and during a scan, it comes up to 60MB of RAM. I’d recommend Avira because its light and has one of the best detection engines.
I’m personally using Eset AV BE for my win7 for the last couple month.
Not too heavy and most importantly, trustworthy.
Nod 32 SS.
Nod32 is the lightest for what it does, compared to Kap/Avira/Avast it is much less of a resource hog and you won’t find many people complaining about it
Microsoft security essentials
Nod 32 SS. That’s light and safe. Go for it.ESS
I’d say, Nod 32 smart security
NOD32, been using it for almost a month now on W7 without any issues
Thanks for all the replies mates.
And Is 1gb DDR2 RAM sufficient to run 7 properly?
I mean I don’t run many big appz in 7 and use XP for playing games. (i have nVidia 8400GS 512MB DDR2 card for gaming)
Avast i use that,yes 1gb will be ok if you don’t want to play newer games.
Yep, Avast IMO.