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Originally Posted by pluto
By a billion miles the most unobtrusive antivirus software I've ever used is Microsoft Security Essentials, or Windows defender as it's known in Win8.
Have a read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...ity_Essentials
Seems it does very well at everything except for detecting 0-day threats but it's certainly good enough if you also run a firewall (which is on by default since XPsp2) and don't run executables that you find in your email  |
Hi Pluto.
Please note that Microsoft security essentials has a long way ahead of it before it can catchup with any of the "real" antivirus products out there. I have been a Systems Administrator for more than 15 years and I cringed when Microsoft came out with their version of AV. I use ESET Antivirus. It is unobtrusive and quite good.. identifies malware websites, viruses etc. Trend Micro is quite good as well. I hate Symantec/Norton because of its high cpu/memory usage
Whatever you choose to use, do note that on older machines, these products will take more cpu/memory than running on a new computer. This is merely for the fact that older computers are a whole lot slower than what these software might be produced for (check the minimal hardware requirements).
Hope I have muddled the waters for you abit