Seriously. Considering how good NAV is at sucking up memory and CPU cycles, the only way anyone probably noticed was when their computer suddenly seemed much smoother and more responsive.
Seriously. Considering how good NAV is at sucking up memory and CPU cycles, the only way anyone probably noticed was when their computer suddenly seemed much smoother and more responsive.
I agree. I am a computer services provider for mostly home users and I often find NAV and internet tools to be single greatest contributor to draining system resources. I usually recommend disabling NAV, using safe internet practices, and scanning weekly or if there appears to be a problem.
Well that's not surprising considering NAV runs at least 14 processes. I think it might be 15 including that glorified advertisement they call Norton Protection Center.
We're still selling it at the shop that I work at. I'm not sure why... We recommend AVG Free for most people, but for business users we sell NAV.
Also have a look at E-SET NOD32. They've actually got heuristics working properly., the window between virus release, vendor awareness followed by vendor update isn't fast enough these days and NOD32 seems to trump them all with their effective heuristics. Last week whilst selecting a replacement anti-virus for our existing Symantec Corporate installation, I was lucky enough to receive a virus sample by e-mail (to an otherwise unfiltered mailbox). I received this virus at 18:05, Kaspersky first became awar
We recommend AVG Free for most people, but for business users we sell NAV.
AVG is an excellent product. I have been using it for a couple of weeks now with zero problems, minimal performance/CPU/RAM impact, etc. I am so impressed with it that I am actually going to pay for it, despite the free version working "good enough" for me.
At work, NAV sucks my computer dry. Sure, it works well enough, but the cure is worse than the disease. Too bad my employer is in bed with MS and Norton, no room for AVG...
Would not recommend AVG free, its been a consistant low performer as to viruss found for many years.
If price is the pinch try Avast!
If you have $30AU ($18US) get trend pccillin oem bundle, can usually track em down fairly easy, it does use some resources (mainly ram) but actually gets most of the baddies.
Of course if you want good protection and low resources get kaspersky:)
For the home-users I support I always install AVG-free [grisoft.com], great package. The only disadvantage is the updater for winme/win98 stations, having to download a 2 MB updatefile a couple of times a week is a pain in the ass for people with a 56k modem. At some offices I use f-prot [f-prot.com]. Hardly any recources and I didn't have a slip-through up till now. Mcaffeee, Norton and Sophos were all memory-hoggs is my experience...
You use Norton at the office? It's corporate sibling, Symantec AntiVirus, runs far lighter and has much better deployment tools. While far from perfect (I have a list), it is much better than the home user oriented NAV.
We used to do the same, then we just started using AVG Pro for businesses. Problem is, Symantec has a much more thorough virus database, and AVG's detection rate just isn't there for me. Nod32 has been the answer to all my problems.
AVG may run fast, but I've found that its not quite as good as other (non-free) products at catching viruses
Virus Bulletin [virusbtn.com] (BugMeNot Required [bugmenot.com]) does tests of about 30 different antivirus programmes on various versions of windows from NT4 to Server 2003.
They set up computers with the various AV software, and infect the computers with currently common viruses and see which ones catch them. The resuls of 44 of these tests since 1998 for some of the major AV programmes are as follows;
Dude, get your story straight. NAV does not run 14 processes (I got it running at work and at home) and I can identify 4 NAV processes running at about 24 MB. I don't use NPC but I've seen others people running it and it does consume alot more memory/processes. So be it NPC is a resource hog but don't knock NAV, it is not a terrible antivirus product by itself afterall.
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I agree. I am a computer services provider for mostly home users and I often find NAV and internet tools to be single greatest contributor to draining system resources. I usually recommend disabling NAV, using safe internet practices, and scanning weekly or if there appears to be a problem.
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We're still selling it at the shop that I work at. I'm not sure why... We recommend AVG Free for most people, but for business users we sell NAV.
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Last week whilst selecting a replacement anti-virus for our existing Symantec Corporate installation, I was lucky enough to receive a virus sample by e-mail (to an otherwise unfiltered mailbox). I received this virus at 18:05, Kaspersky first became awar
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In addition NOD-32 is really quick, low on resources and has really good anti-spyware detection using the same technology.
I'm usually aware of it when I'm running anti-spyware software -- I don't need NOD-32 to tell me. ;)
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We recommend AVG Free for most people, but for business users we sell NAV.
AVG is an excellent product. I have been using it for a couple of weeks now with zero problems, minimal performance/CPU/RAM impact, etc. I am so impressed with it that I am actually going to pay for it, despite the free version working "good enough" for me.
At work, NAV sucks my computer dry. Sure, it works well enough, but the cure is worse than the disease. Too bad my employer is in bed with MS and Norton, no room for AVG...
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If price is the pinch try Avast!
If you have $30AU ($18US) get trend pccillin oem bundle, can usually track em down fairly easy, it does use some resources (mainly ram) but actually gets most of the baddies.
Of course if you want good protection and low resources get kaspersky
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Virus Bulletin [virusbtn.com] (BugMeNot Required [bugmenot.com]) does tests of about 30 different antivirus programmes on various versions of windows from NT4 to Server 2003.
They set up computers with the various AV software, and infect the computers with currently common viruses and see which ones catch them. The resuls of 44 of these tests since 1998 for some of the major AV programmes are as follows;
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