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I installed Avira a few days a few days ago to use purely as an on demand scanner - you can do a custom install and opt not to have the real time protection module installed so that it can be install alongside other AV software. Aside from the fact that it was fairly pointless installing Avira, as Baidu Antivirus which I already had installed uses Avira as one of its engines (I had forgotten this), it was using 40% CPU a few minutes ago when it was updating, making my computer slow down, and leading to me uninstalling it immediately. I don't notice any slowdown when Baidu updates.
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Those performance tests don't specifically refer to updating. In my case I had Avira installed only has an on demand scanner, so the only impact on performance was when it was updating.
Of course performance will vary from computer to computer. For example I've seen some AVs being light all the time on some computers, but causing noticeable drops in performance at times on other computers. In my case CPU use was exactly 40%, and due to some other tasks running, my total CPU use went to 100%. As for CPU use with Avira installed as an on access scanner, I can't comment as it has been years since I've used it as on access scanner.
You are actually lucky that Avira's installer kept going with another AV already there. Avira is quite finicky about company and the CPU at 40% might be a symptom of conflict. Whatever, my updates last 10-15 seconds max a great improvement from early versions, sometimes trickling trough for 5 long minutes!
Maybe that is only when you install it with on access protection? In theory at least, when it is install without the on access protection module, it should be compatible with any other antivirus.
you should still exclude avira processes/folder in your on-access av and vice versa, excluding your on-access av in avira.
IMO Avira is the lightest AV, I have ever used. I barely notice any system impact. Any AV immediately after install feels heavy for sometime because of updates and other things going in the background. But after few reboots it should settle down.
Yup, I agree, and that is even with the multiple processes Avira has to run compared to some other antiviruses that only have 1 or 2. Question: when will Avira free get the protection cloud It's kind of lagging behind the other free AVs in terms of features.
avira does tend to cause a bit of slowdown during updates. very little but it does. i have never seen 40% cpu though. ill put my money on a conflict between the two av's even though you installed it as on demand only.
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Avira used lots of ram(~300MB) during the update process most of the time thought I didn't take note of the cpu usage.
Not this process, the avguard.exe consumed high amount of ram during the update process if you pay attention to it.
it was the initialization process... this problem you can found in the scanner too High Memory usage in initialization process stefan has said it will fixed until the new vdf format has been released
I pay attention to it..... http://i4.minus.com/ionasoQF0YU3K.png 7 processes, 28.6MB of ram. 20,1MB for avguard.exe. Is this a "high amount of ram" during the update process? I don't think so.
