KIS vs Avira suite

[nixie21]

What are the major differences between the two of these? What is the cost of both? How do they do with system resources?

Right now I use NOD32, OA v2 w/ FW, and Prevx1 as realtime, One of these suites would replace OA and NOD, would Prevx1 be needed anymore?

THanks for all opinions

** ALso the FW must be very easy to use...

[trjam]

both are good. Avira has better hueristics and in beta right now, the suite has rootkit detection and antispam. I think Avira is lighter, especially with web browsing. KIS has a good PDM. By my sig you see what I choose.

[nixie21]

{QUOTE-> both are good. Avira has better hueristics and in beta right now, the suite has rootkit detection and antispam. I think Avira is lighter, especially with web browsing. KIS has a good PDM. By my sig you see what I choose. <-QUOTE}

Thanks,

is either a total security solution? Run the suite real time and just use others 'on demand'?

[plantextract]

both are, the pdm in kav has the edge here by blocking some real time registry changes and other dangerous behaviours.

BTW: v7 of kis (now in beta too) will have a new heuristic engine and very good rootkit detection from the on demand scanner.

[trjam]

I would have to say both are. Trial them both and make the choice that is best for you. Ahh, make sure that choice is Avira though.8)

[nixie21]

What is the resources used? I know between everything I run now it has to be less!

Thanks again

[nixie21]

{QUOTE-> I would have to say both are. Trial them both and make the choice that is best for you. Ahh, make sure that choice is Avira though.8) <-QUOTE}

I will trial Avira first just for you!:thumb:

[trjam]

Here again, both are low. I dont have numbers but I personally feel Avira has the edge.

[MalwareDie]

From posts I have seen in threads, it leads me to believe that Avira is lighter on resources. You could always ask someone that has used both products though.

[nixie21]

Trjam - what is the total resouce usage of Avira suite for you?

Anyone else know the KIS usage total?

THanks

[huntnyc]

Have used both and don't have totals. Am running Avira Suite beta now and very light. As someone said, we browsing no slowdown with Avira but with KIS my browsing slowed a bit. Still a good program and I might go back to it from time to time but I would take Avira which to me "feels" lighter and less bothersome in some ways.

Gary

[Engelhardt]

Right now KIS 6 is using 4372 on this machine. 2 processes. ::)

[nixie21]

4372?? WOW, how can it run so low and have so many different things? AV, FW, +++++

[Engelhardt]

Even though it runs light in memory I will have to admit that Avira Security Suite seems to run lighter. I'm Beta testing ASS for Vista and KIS seems heaver then ASS. :o

[nixie21]

Well I am trying KIS first...

I have 2 avp.exe running, 1 at 39k and 1 at 8.5k...is this normal?

Thanks

[trjam]

Wow, yep. running about 16 with the Avira suite.

[lodore]

yes its normal.
it does flacuate but its genraly very low memory usage.
atm one avp is 6mb and one is 1.5mb
and zero cpu usage.
to speed kis6.0 up do a full system scan so that the files have got ichecker sums.
lodore

[nixie21]

{QUOTE-> yes its normal.
it does flacuate but its genraly very low memory usage.
atm one avp is 6mb and one is 1.5mb
and zero cpu usage.
to speed kis6.0 up do a full system scan so that the files have got ichecker sums.
lodore <-QUOTE}

I run a full system scan, why do i have a 38 and 8 and you have a 6.5 and 1.5 ?

[lodore]

one avp atm is 21mb and one is 4mb
it does flacuate quite a bit.
during a scan one of the avp can go up to 100mb and go back down once scan is finished
the memory usage of kis6.0 depends on what your doing on your pc thou.
also i reccomend going to settings,service,data files and unticking log non critical events to stop unneeded reports.
if you go to service on the main interface and then go to data files you can see how much disk space the reports are taking up its probaly quite alot hence my surgestion to untick log non critcal events
lodore

[nixie21]

ok, i will watch it, it just has not come below 38...guess it need to give it time and see...besides that it looks good... 1 icon in the sys tray instead of 4 different programs...i like it!

[FRug]

Avira flushes out unneeded stuff to disk from time to time, so you have peak usages, which get normalized after a couple of minutes. Sitting here typing i have around 5,5MB usage for the on access guard and 240k for the mailguard.

[Eliot]

I have used both and Avira is definitely lighter on my pc than KIS. I don't give a hoot what the RAM usage on them says. I define lighter by the hit on my pc's speed. This is an older P4 3.06 Ghz with HT, 2 GB of DDR 400 RAM running on a pair of 74GB Raptors in RAID 0. Avira is a dream on here, even lighter than Norton and NOD32 ran on here.

[coldplay]

I use antivir Personal Premium+ Prevx1 +Window Firewall+ Router and I passed leaktest so outbound control is also coverd. more over, this setup is very very light. mayber lighter if using antivir PE

[C.S.J]

if you take out the prevx1 which is not needed in your setup, you will notice a significantly huge difference in your system performance.

[Banshee]

{QUOTE-> Wow, yep. running about 16 with the Avira suite. <-QUOTE}


Trjam,

Is the new avira suite getting a new/improved firewall ?

[trjam]

some tweaks were made about a month ago and may also be in the beta to. Mine is definetly different then before on tightening down.

[Banshee]

{QUOTE-> some tweaks were made about a month ago and may also be in the beta to. Mine is definetly different then before on tightening down. <-QUOTE}


Could you please elaborate on this ? I am definitely interested. I wish they would make it like outpost,jetico or antihacker.

I tested the suite a while back but ditched it because of the firewall....