Lightest security suite.

Hi.
Just wondered what security suite members would consider the lightest on resources.
Im using comodo internet security and if anybody can show me a full suite which is lighter than this then i would sincerely like to know about it.
Ive seen comodo go down to 4000k ram at intermittent times.

 

WSA winner? Here's on 4GB of ram.

 

yeah it certainly looks close paul.WSA and comodo would appear to be the perfect couple.

 

Only a little problem, RAM has pretty much nothing to do with lightness nowdays. Better to have resources ready in memory instead of having hard drive and cpu working isn't it?

 

Roboscan IS is running about the same as CIS on my system.

Isn't WSA cloud based? If so I think it's not a apples to apples comparison.

 

I don't know if this is of any use to you, it's about AVs and not suites.

But perhaps it gives some indication.

http://antivirus.raymond.cc/


Just select a benchmark.

 

Im not a fan of bloatware.
Which would you sooner have a bloated suite or a nice light one.?
Know which one i would pick.

 

What scanning Engine does Comodo use?

Also, I thought it performed poorly in detecting mew threats (correct meh if im wrong) I thought avast was the king of free AVs

 

That figure is misleading at it does not show total RAM usage - to do that you need to enable the Memory - Peak Working Set column it task manager.

 

Comodo uses their own in-house engine and it is quite effective although i dont come across malware when i use my computer.
I run in custom firewall mode and only get alerts when i open up programs that need internet access.
I dont download rubbish and ive NEVER had a D+ alert.
Comodo suits me very well it has everything i need and is a quiet vigilant sentinel.

 

I personalleh doubt the effectiveness of products not mentioned on the AV comparatives test such as MSE and Comodo

http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart2.php

 

I just use what works for me.It runs very nicely on my computer.
I dont go for these "tests" myself.

Ive tried several suites and have an image for bullguard and kaspersky but i like how comodo internet security runs on my machine.

Each to their own i suppose.

 

Offcourse mate, it's not a competition. It's what works for j00 be$t

 

For modern systems RAM shouldn't be a problem, now that i have over 6GB of RAM i wish all programs were pre loaded in the memory so they would be blazing fast but Windows only uses 1.5GB.

 

Check these Tests out:

- http://www.passmark.com/ftp/totalprotectionsuites-sept2012.pdf -

- http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/performance-tests -

 

ESET Smart Security use about 80mb of ram, it's very light and not bloated or heavy on system, partly because the stuff it needs is ready in memory when needed. Most people having 4GB of ram probably rarely or never use more than half of it anyway, if your system with 4 GB of ram use 1.5 or 2 GB of memory, no difference in speed as long as you don't run out of ram. There's a reason why some use ram disk, it's much faster than regular hard drives.
You need to monitor IO operations and CPU usage over time to define if something is light where it matters.

 

Agreed. Lightness can't be measured merely on paper, err... on a monitor/readout either. It's best described by how your setups "feels". When I talk about a footprint that's what I mean by it, anyway.

I've seen AV's that seem to use up hardly any resources in terms of RAM/CPU, but the reality of the matter is that the real-time scanning chews up the HD and slows the system down substantially.

By any standard of measure though, Comodo is very light. Of course I've never used the AV part, just the FW and D+.

 

What about Emsisoft do you doubt the effectiveness of that? That's not in any AV-Comparatives test.

 

As ive said i dont allow these "tests" to influence any decision i make.
The malware that the products are tested with,i myself find it highly unlikely that i would ever come across it.

Yet the paid security suite companies would like you to believe that their product is superior to a free product.Well what about mse which comes from microsoft itself.!,Is that inferior?
Or avast etc.

 

I think it's Eset Smart Security.

 

Mine is 0 peak

 

Wow nick.
Cant beat that lol.

 

I just use built in Windows/Linux security

 

For Linux maybe it's ok but for Windows don't you think it's risky?

 

RAM nowdays is an issue only for old hardware.

Lightness has more to do with:
- CPU usage (the little column CPU Time in task manager that few use)
- Hard drive access (Comodo is quite heavy in that, if you see i/o reads column).

http://i50.tinypic.com/34oya8l.png

Also Comodo, despite being very cosy having the HIPS, surely won't be my application of choice as soon as i get an SSD (i/o writes bytes):

http://i46.tinypic.com/11iffur.png

http://i47.tinypic.com/214yucl.png

As it is known, the more writes on an SSD, the quicker the SSD will die.

But, yes, it takes little RAM, so that my 8 GB can stay free. And HDDs are so fast nowdays, better hammer them than RAM!


P.S: This is without the antivirus enabled, just firewall with D+ and no cloud.