AV for dialup connection

Any views on a (preferably free) AV prog for one of my clients who is still on a dialup connection. In other words, which prog is likely to update with small incremental patches rather than a mega, all-in-one cumulative, dialup stopper?

Many thanks.

 

drweb is your best bet for dialup & lower end machines.

15mb installation
15mb HD space
15kb updates

or there abouts

but not free sorry.

 

Here in the backwoods I am still restricted to dial-up and the best AVs I have tried for this type of connection are Dr Web, NOD and F-Prot, in that order.

Of the free AVs, IME, Avast is probably the best one with its push updates and AntiVir the worst because of its Classic Servers.

 

Thank you both. Two votes for Dr Web so far. I use NOD32 on my machines here - and have run it very successfully on dial-up. It's my preferred solution but I have a client who seems reluctant to spend money, hence the query about free progs.

 

Just a tip - if you upgrade to ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 , your updates will be smaller than those with v2 , which makes it the better one for dial-up users

 

i confirm it

 

I agree, small update & does so on connection, the protection is well worth the price...if free it has to be then Avast & that is from experience I have used both with good success...

 

Isn't there more than "small updates" to consider?like how much does each AV's web protection component slow down the connection?

 

don't think Avast nor Nod would interfer there...

 

Not to get into the NOD 2 v 3 debate here but I've reverted to v2.7 on my three machines because of various issues I've had and I'm reluctant to push a paid product I don't feel happy with myself. I think I might install Avast, Nod32 v2 and Dr Web for him in that order (not all together, obviously!) and see how things work out.

Thanks for all your responses.