Having second thoughts, maybe dumping Av for AS ?

A-Squared AM gets a big here.

 

Been running it for a few days here. The first day, quite heavy, lot of churning going on.

Since then, it's dropped from around 30MB of memory, and back to around 60-80MB. All depends on the number of applications you're running. But no system slowdown.

The mamutu/behaviour element, awesome as usual.

I've disabled surf protection, as I use sandboxie. However for those without sandboxie, you can configure surf protection to alert/block a number of problem hosts. Does a great job with alerts in lightning speed.

I've set updates to every 12 hours, as I'd rather the program sit there silently, rather than check for an update at its default, every hour. But each to their own.

Just to test the Ikarus scanner, user's laptop from work had a slowdown and upload problem with the wireless connection. The user was running a free AV plus a (known heavy resource) spyware application (that's unpopular here). Still had major problems with uploads and resource use. Convinced the user to run the a-squared web scanner, and smart scan found 60+ threats, few trojans/worms thrown in for variety.

So far, definitely gets the 's up from me. Not the heavy behemoth I thought it was (if run with minimal programs ie sandboxie).

 

i dont rely on my av that much tbh because i have sandboxie spyware terminator and comodo firewall/defence+ but it doesnt hurt to have avira free checking your downloads and such. i mean unless youve got an old or slow computer avira realtime scanning shouldnt be a problem

 

Just an update, still running light. eg. when just working on a few files.



Updates are quick to download.



Background guard (mamutu element) still doing its thing. This was allowed.