Anti virus program

I've been looking at anti virus programs. I've been wandering what antivirus program would work on a laptop meaning that it wouldn't take a lot of memory bandwidth. I had some antivirus programs on our desktops that when you would perform a search or even an upgrade, you couldn't do anything else. I haven't gotten the laptop yet, so any suggestions would really help. I don't have to be a free anti virus ( I have looked at the avg antivirus though). The Eset Nod32 looks to be about what I want. Three websites, including their website, says that it doesn't use much memory bandwidth. Any insight?

 

We have a entire sub-forum dedicated to this.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1046

My vote for free- Avira AV
If you want to pay- Nod32

 

Norton Antivirus 2009 has tons of rebate deals that make the price $0 plus tax, unlike Eset. It uses even less system resources than Eset NOD32, which is certainly saying something. It also has more frequent updates (which are system-resource-invisible) than Eset.

Or, if you want a firewall as well, Norton Internet Security 2009 is a good choice too. For me, it seems it typically uses a bit of extra memory as compared to NAV09.

Either choice is very good, and I have not seen any impacts to my computer's performance before and after installing NIS09.

 

I was thinking about getting the zone alarm firewall, or should I get Norton Internet Security

 

My vote is Avira AV 9 FTW, and again FTW...
(and SuperAntiSpyware)


Cin

 

there are many great free alternative for Internet Security that does a great jobs, as well as saves you money.

I went over that a couple of times in this forum.

If you want to spend money, try to avoid the infamously problems makers (Norton and McAfee suites).

 

I've tried ZoneAlarm before (in addition to McAfee, Kaspersky, ESET NOD32 and ESET Smart Security, AVG, and now, NIS09). It uses much more resources than NIS09, but its firewall is quite nice.

I am going to venture to say that you have never tried Norton NAV/NIS 2009. Norton products from before 2009 (I'm referring to 2008 in particular) were one of the most bloated system protection suites out there, slowing your system down to a crawl and adding some 30+ seconds to boot time.

NIS 2009, however, was completely rewritten from the earlier Norton products, to be much more streamlined, and at the same time, more secure. If you check third-party antivirus ratings, you can see Norton consistently ranks in at least the top 5, while using far less system resources.

Another Norton problem of the past, the numerous false positives, has also been more or less fixed. The detection engine seems much more precise than before, in my experiences.

 

I prefer Comodo's Firewall(without Defense+) to Zone Alarm's.

As for Anti-viruses, Avira is a nice one indeed.

Paying I'd go with Kapersky personally because of its special way of viral detection over the common ones. At least that's what my hacker(and virus making) friend told me >.>

 

What ever you decide..the freeware is just as good..at the paid AV Software.
(You literally can load your lappy what you want with great freeware!)

Cin

 

Yeah honestly you don't need that much more than what the freewares give you for everyday home use.

 

cloudbyday, NOD32 is the best of the lot, and takes the least amount of memory. It is not free though, so take out yer wallet and spend some of that money.

IMVHO, do NOT touch anything by Norton. Just look around on the net about it. After a few days, you'd wish that you'd rather have a virus than Norton, and when you'd want to remove it, you won't be able to.

Also, you do not need a firewall, again, IMVHO. Just get a good antivirus, and 2 anti-malwares (a-squared and MBAM, free editions of both), and you'd be fine.

 

I think I am going to get Norton, it seems that a lot of places like cnet and pcmag likes Norton.

 

It's the worst of the lot.

 

Have you even used any Norton 2009 product?. They are the best.

 

Norton 360 and the latest Norton's are much better than it used to be... but when you want to remove it from your computer... is when you might run into obstacles.

go with whatever you want, just make sure that it stays up to date and still active (like paying up for yearly fees).

 

ROFL! Yes, I have.

 

I've been very happy with Kaserpsky.

It lso runs well on a 4,5 year old laptop with 512MB RAM on XP
(Its withmy grandfather)

 

If you want an antivirus that is resource-friendly, then Norton 2009, Nod32, Vipre or even Panda Cloud are the antiviruses for you.