Virus scan which wont bugger my computer

[budda]

My home computer is far from all the new and it isnt all that fast, I recently put the new all singing all dancing version of MacCaffrey on it and basically its buggered. The program is far too big and far too draining and I cant do anything else.

Any ideas? Is there a virus scanning program I can get which isnt huge?

[Replicant]

I use avast!. tis free, and does the job. pretty tiny too I think.

not had any problems with it at all.

[budda]

Excellent, ta.

[Replicant]

yeah, AVG's supposed to be very good too

[Teagan]

Originally Posted by Replicant

yeah, AVG's supposed to be very good too

I use it - and loads of family and friends do too. Works a treat!

[Porky_Stalker]

I have used:

Kaspersky http://www.kaspersky.com/
&
NOD32 http://www.eset.com/

They are both good programs that dont take much to run and they dont seem to slow your computer down when looking for viruses
I remember using Norton Antivirus a few years ago... that was a joke.. couldn't do anything!

[CoolMe]

Onecare is great if you dont want it to take up many resources

[noog]

Originally Posted by CoolMe

Onecare is great if you dont want it to take up many resources

Oh shutup, Onecare's just as bad as norton/mcafee.


Go for AVG, turn off daily scan, and set priority to low, sorted.

[Replicant]

Originally Posted by noog

Oh shutup, Onecare's just as bad as norton/mcafee.


Go for AVG, turn off daily scan, and set priority to low, sorted.

I had expected onecare to be a bit bloaty, I'd thought it was designed more as a product for people who didnt have anything better.