Lightest Footprint Anti Malware

ESET NOD32 has a small footprint and I believe it is the best paid for, security suite.

Believe it or not so does Norton 2009/2010, it has lost a lot of weight...shoulda won celebrity fit club. It so funny because I lost so much respect for Symantec for being such a hog I would never give it a try, even if it was free, however it has changed.

I used AVG free for a long time, I still do on a few home machines. Its very light weight and non intrusive.

I am using MSE now, mainly because I want to give it a shot.

I love and use avast, especially the boot scan. I only wish they had that option in the console where you can tell it to run a boot scan, then it will shutdown, then run the scan automatically while rebooting. Unless I missed it, someone show me. I wonder if MSE can run along side other AV software. I like teaming Hitman Pro, and Previx with my Avast.

My advice is on these three products: Norton AV 2010, Kaspersky AV 2010. I like Kaspersky cause it never gave me much trouble and I like how it is very detailed. It has excellent detection rates, likewise Norton. However, Norton is less complicated/ user friendly. Huge User Base to help you out with. Quite fast tech support.

Trial out both of these and choose between the ones you like. Both are excellent though, I can assure you that.

If you would rather same money (like me), then go for this combination:

Comodo Firewall
Avira Antivir
Spybot Search & Destroy

This will be enough to protect you as long as you use Site advisers and don't visit sites with a reputation for malware.

I use MSE. It has been better then what i expected. I dont feel the bloat as i have previously with other programs. And it has been getting some great reviews about its detection rate.

I agree on the issue that Avg 8 is a memory hog, version 7 was ok. Off topic, anyone using Avast know to tell it to perform a boot scan? So far I only know about it doing that during initial installation.

zay said:

I agree on the issue that Avg 8 is a memory hog, version 7 was ok. Off topic, anyone using Avast know to tell it to perform a boot scan? So far I only know about it doing that during initial installation.

here's what you need to do. Open avast and click on the control center icon and this menu will appear.


Schedule your boot scan timing and you're done.

Thanks for the tip dinesh.