Hi,
in my opinion Avira is very light AV.
If you ask about firewall, here is my scale (from lightest to heaviest):
Kerio 2.1.5 = DefenseWall Personal Firewall (keep in mind it is in beta tests) = Ghostwall > Rising Firewall Free > Ashampoo Firewall Free > PC Tools Firewall >/= Comodo FW > Zone Alarm > Online Armor >> Outpost >= Sygate FW.
Is VIPRE free?
No, but you can trial it for free.
VIPRE - The End of Antivirus Software As You Know It!
Use DeepFreeze... all your HUGE antiV progs you can kiss goodbye.. and all the trouble they cause
I know most of you guys hate it but NIS 2010 is very light on my sys; usually using well under 10mb ram. Its even less with firefox closed. Very impressive for everything it does imo
At this moment, my NIS09 runs at 2.936K. NIS09 is great and has never been in the way. I also like that it scans at idle times. In the early days, I called the Symantec support a few times and they were always very helpful, both for the Internet Security and Ghost, which I also run. And good support is not obvious with many other companies.
I've switched to NIS2010 too. It really is light on resources and so far does a great job. The one question many of the Anti-Norton crowd like to ask besides the now debunked "bloatware" and "system hog" claim is how hard is it to un-install? I can't answer this yet as I don't want to uninstall it. Has anyone tried to uninstall?
To uninstall any Norton product, you have to use the Norton Removal Tool ( Download and run the Norton Removal Tool ). That works very well. The only problem is, if you have several Norton products installed (like I have NIS and GHOST), it will remove all of them in one run.
I guess Microsoft Security Essentials has been officially released now:
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