It is time for me to renew my free Avast AV and I was wondering what is the lightest GOOD antivirus [MSE need not apply]. I think I'm primarily looking for the one that uses the fewest threads. Avira, Bitdefender, & Comodo come to mind. I'm not keen on AVG, seen that fail on a few laptops people have asked me to clean.
So, if you can post a pic of the task manger with the info for threads and working set of memory [private and total] like so:
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Really?
124 views and nobody can be bothered to use the snipping tool for one minute to take a shot of their taskmgr? -
This test is a little old but it should give you a rough idea.
Memory Usage Test to See Which is the Lightest Antivirus Software -
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Free AV CPU, Threads, & Memory Usage Comparison
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by thegreatsquare, Feb 11, 2014.