Security suite with lightest performance hit

Discussion in 'other anti-malware software' started by mraeryceos, Sep 25, 2011.

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  1. mraeryceos

    mraeryceos Registered Member

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    Regardless of the quality of security, what is a free or paid *security suite* that has the least performance hit on the system (does not slow down the computer)? I have feeling the free ones will be better performing LOL.
     
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  3. Hungry Man

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    Security suite is kinda vague. The lightest thing you can do is not use 3rd party software. Or you the simplest software. If we're talking about suites I think the idea is to put as many features as possible.
     
  4. drhu22

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    For me Comodo, Norton, and Avast are the fastest i know of, although im not sure if Avast has as solid protection as the other two.
     
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    Avira is another light Sec. Suite with very solid protection...:thumb:
     
  6. m0unds

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    "lightest" isn't easily quantifiable. i'd suggest searching wilders for "light" or "lightest" and spend the next three weeks to a month reading every single post that mentions "light" or "lightest". you'll see what i mean. what's light to one person, isn't to another and so on and so forth.
     
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    Kingsoft PC Doctor, Twister, Norton, and Comodo IS.
     
  8. Zyrtec

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    Hey,

    Just a thought. I guess if you continue to delve deeply into this subject it might as well end up as an A vs. B and the whole thread be locked by the Lone Ranger or LWM.

    Just a thought.


    Regards,


    Carlos
     
  9. mraeryceos

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    Norton has improved? It used to suck systems dry.
     
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    I don't know, but I wouldn't go with just an antivirus. Blacklisting just isn't that effective. So I guess that's why Suites were born.

    A lot of people make their own suite, which I think is often superior, but in this case I was making the topic specific to a suite from one company that has the best performance... not in how fast it can do an offline scan, but in how little resources it uses in real time security.
     
  11. Cloud

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    As you said: "It used to"
    Norton 2009 was the first step foward. :)
     
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    Hello,

    Norton has definitely improved. I find that it runs pretty fast on my system. Comcast recently dumped McAfee in favor of Norton for their free security suite.

    Regards,

    Nathan
     
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    I agree that norton has improved a lot. Give it a try. I'm pretty sure that you'll like it.
     
  14. chris1341

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    Webroot Secure Anywhere. Many will say it is not a 'real' suite i.e cloud based with rudimentary outbound firewall control but it has many nice features including good keylogger and screen capture protection on https sites and in terms of RAM, CPU, disc utilisation etc it is almost unnoticeable.

    I've been online for around 15 hours so far today - heavy p2p, web-surfing, watching video and office document creation all included and CPU time is currently 58 seconds with total disc activity - read, write and other very low for both the Medium and System integrity wrsa.exe's combined.

    Still in beta but if you prize performance above all, can't beat WSA IMO.

    Cheers
     
  15. J_L

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    Linux! Just joking, you can check out Outpost Security Suite Free or Forticlient Standard in additional to what's already mentioned if you want.
     
  16. mraeryceos

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    Thanks, that was helpful. However, their methodology for statistics leaves a lot of room for smudging. Like the way "very fast" file copying is anywhere between 0 to 10% slower than without any security software, and then they apply a whole 15 points for that. Almost all the security software was "very fast". I would have preferred they use the actual numbers than rounding anything. If the statistics for the test are that inaccurate (high error range), then they shouldn't have included that test.

    Sorry, I am remembering statistics concepts but not the terminology
     
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    I fully agree. It's I/O usage is double as low as some traditional AV's that I have tried lately. And yes the performance impact is not much noticeable, if at all :thumb: Not to mention the RAM usage for the two processes wich lands on 1MB total :cool:

    But if the OP want's to try it out he/she would need to sign up for the BETA: http://info.prevx.com/downloadcsi.asp
     
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    Avast felt light. Kasperky felt heavy. For me. Come up with a short list and download their 30-Day trials. You'll probably have a feel within a day or two which ones are good for you.
     
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    NIS 2012. 20MB/0-2% CPU usage on idle, 70-90MB while scanning 45-50% CPU usage.

    But a lot of people complaining that it is buggy.
     
  20. EboO

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    A good security suite is vipre premium.
     
  21. mraeryceos

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    Okay, as a review, people mentioned the following:

    Vipre Premium
    Comodo IS
    Avira Premium Security
    Norton Internet Security
    Webroot Secure Anywhere
    Outpost Security Suite
    Forticlient Standard
    Avast Internet Security
     
  22. sm1

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    You can add Eset Smart Security to the list:) Better to try the programs suggested here in your system:)
     
  23. Noob

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    Eset is also extremely light, unnoticeable in my dummy OS :D
     
  24. fict0n

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    AV Comparatives methodology is terrible. Copy speed? PC Mark? Give me a break. You need to look at software responsiveness and IO footprints. What a stupid and pointless report - evidenced by the fact that all of the results are about the same across AVs, which we all know is far from the truth.

    The advice to 'test it out' is bogus too, since many AVs take time to acclimate and build a file whitelist database. That said, I use Panda Cloud on my netbook.
     
  25. Noob

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    Copying IMO is a very good test, why?
    Because i've experienced copying files from partition to partition take LOOOOOOOOOOOONG due to a lame AV ;)
     
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