FortiClient Endpoint Security 5

Tried to take this AV for a test drive last nite. After downloading and trying to install, it stalled midway through the process. After roughly 15 minutes went by with no further activity to finish installing I ended the process in task mgr, and promptly lost my wi-fi network connection. While troubleshooting the cause, I noticed in Device Mgr Forticlient had installed Wan mini ports/Filter mini ports nearly identical to Privatefirewall, although this version of Forticlient had no firewall included. I could only surmise it created a conflict with PFW which led to the stalled installation, and subsequent disruption to my network. Needless to say, I was not happy with the outcome. Forticlient is gone, and I then had to restore the TCP/IP stack to regain network access.

 

Pretty positive it comes with a firewall.

http://www.forticlient.com/

On the left, it says it includes Application Firewall.

 

Thanks,good to know as i am a PVTFW user too and i was going to try Forticlient at a certain point.So the way to go is to install first Forticlient and PVTFW afterwards....

 

they removed firewall for the free/standalone version since 5.04

 

I know what is says on the site, but what I downloaded had three modules none of which were for a firewall. See attached image.

 

you are right, my answer is posted above

 

Excellent. I'll start recommending it on my site.

 

FortiClient (Fortinet) in VB 100: RAP averages quadrant Feb - August 2013 test
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug13-1200.jpg

 

That's good, but I don't put too much stock into RAP, as it's only on-demand detection. However, it is doing fairly well in AV-C and AV-Test, plus the buzz here is good.

 

Nice GUI, too.

 

I installed FortiClient 5.0.5.308 in Win 8.1 Pro RTM 64 bit and it works just fine so far. I'm impressed.

Later...

 

Told ya. It's my go to now. Light as a feather and works perfectly. Very good product

 

Light as a 10 feathers........

Ten!!! (10) processes shown running here on Win XP SP3 32-bit.

http://i.imgur.com/3dkSLNC.png

81.492KB memory usage when PC was idle.........

 

Processes are no indicator for lightness. I like it so far.

 

81.492KB memory usage when PC was idle.........

Before you post any reply: Yes, I know about memory consumption ........

 

Yeah, it could be less but it shouldn't be a problem with 4 GB RAM these days. The scans are pretty slow ...

 

I take it that when someone says "light" he talk about all days, not only these days.

Old PC with weak CPU and little RAM.
New PC with strong CPU and plenty of RAM.

 

its light for first gen i3 with 2GB ram
I'm quite sure its very heavy for core solo with 512 ram, or less
but it seem to be a very few anti malware program with that kind of lightness, unless its a on demand type.

I do want anti malware that use memory for 80mb or so instead of using disk / cpu.
but again its personal choice, forticlient wont satisfy everyone here, I'm 100% sure of that.

 

35% cpu usage for the 10 processes while at idle?

 

Auto-update seems to be disabled by default? Hm, no update since 5 hours ...

 

FortiClient is a nice program, but I don't get why people consider this lighter than other AV programs. If anything, I think it is on the heavier side in the current AV environment.

Av-Test agrees:
http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/tests/test-reports/?tx_avtestreports_pi1[report_no]=133224

 

^ Can't believe you're linking the same test that showed Eset as heavy.

 

it will auto update on 3 hours interval
and my last update is today, just update around an hour ago.

I don't know what's your processor, but on my i5 quad core 2.5ghz its using 0.1% on average

 

Show me a test or metrics that display this AV being lighter than average. And don't just say it "feels light". 80% of the AVs out there will be mostly unnoticeable for someone with a modern PC.