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John S

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Can you guys recommend an AV that is light on resources and uses minimum amount of memory. I have tried suites but they tend to slow web pages loading. Is it best to use just an AV without the suite with windows firewall.?.

Thx
 
You did not mention cost - if you wanted free or a paid program. Defender is free and will work only if you are smart where you surf. You can also get Malwarebytes and perform manual scans so it does not run in the background.

For me, I can't take a chance and I have ESET Internet Security and Malwarebytes that I paid for. Why, because I may go to risky sites. I'll leave it at that. ;)
 
ESET NOD32

reliable and fairly lightweight (compared to others at least)
 
I use AVG free right now, Bit Defender before, and Avira before as well as pretty much tried every other one in the last few decades. But those three are light enough, no performance impact worth mentioning, basically because it's set to not not really actively scan every exe or file that i already know is safe on my machine. It's in the lightest setting and it's really simply a backup to addons for web safety ( it does actively scan the web) and for downloads/occasional torrent.

And where does it pop up and terminate connection 99.999% of the time? Google Images. And no not porn. At all, actually, hardware or maybe nature images/wallpapers, "harmless" shit like that. And i'm not searching google images daily, but it seems every time i do, it happens at least once. So yeah, false positive or not for what it's worth, just the fact that it does pop up like that and terminate a connection on occasion even though i also run ublock, no script, an anti miner, https, i keep it.

You could certainly raw dog it if you have addons and your browser "mostly" locked down. But i don't see any pluses to it, and any decent pc in the last 10 years it's not degrading your performance, especially if you run it basically mostly "off" for what it's worth, just get one that has those kind of options.
 
Antiviruses are like a broken condom. Kinda protects but there's always a hole.
 
B00nie said:
I haven't run an active AV or malwarebytes in years. Sometimes I wonder why people tolerate having to live in uncertainty and see all this trouble.
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Not everyone has your index finger, maybe you should clone it.;)
 
Executioner said:
You did not mention cost - if you wanted free or a paid program. Defender is free and will work only if you are smart where you surf. You can also get Malwarebytes and perform manual scans so it does not run in the background.

For me, I can't take a chance and I have ESET Internet Security and Malwarebytes that I paid for. Why, because I may go to risky sites. I'll leave it at that. ;)
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Use Defender but then setup a VM for the internet combat zone.
If your VM gets blown up, just restore it and you can get back to your "research".

Performance is NOT up to par with Hyper-V. I use the free VMware player and
network, streaming video, and sound all work fine.

Password protect the VM and call it something like Win-7 Test so your family
won't find your donkey-midget pr0n when you die.

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