Is G Data AVK really superior?

Hahaha, G Data is really superior

 

Some vendors really take it to far

 

GDATA AVK, probably the best antivirus on this planet !!

 

Well I have been made curious so I thought I'd test the security suite on one of my machines and I'm impressed a lot. besides very easy and clean removal of malware this thing is really fast on my machine.
Total processes are 2.556 kb. besides that Browsing is amazingly fast as well.

 

Does running it on a dual or quad core relieve the load I experience on my P4? Im sure it would, I just want to clarify for when I rebuild my pc.

 

I also have a P4. It's a 630 (3Gig) with 3 Gig of memory. GData does not tax my processor! If you don't have enough ram it will run slow. With my set-up this A/V does not slow my system anymore that any other a/v I''ve used

 

Must be a newer version than the one I ran. I have 2GB of memory in here with a 3Ghz P4 w/HT and running on RAID 0 using a pair of Raptors. Win 7 even runs nice on here. The last time I ran GData, it was like old school norton!

All jokes aside, if anyone wanted to post a link to the trial of the latest, I'll give it a spin. Im not actually running anything real time except Malwarebytes atm.

 

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Thank you Macstorm.

225MB. holy big files batman! dl'n installing and will report back

 

It will not install on Windows 7

Tried all the compatible stuff, run as admin, etc. everything. no joy.

 

YW Eliot

Don't be fooled by the installer size.
The AV runs much smoother than previous versions, all the new 2009 products were optimized for dual and multi-core systems.
However, I just didn't like the fact they ditched the kav engine in favor of bitdefender

[edit] Just saw you tried to install it on Win 7

 

Yep. I plan to upgrade this thing to a Quad Core with 4GB with faster raid. I might just run it then.(if I can get it installed on win7)

 

I gave it a try and I must say that it is not what I expected, it is not light, but it can run smoothly on most up to date systems. I'm also one of those who is asking why they changed Kaspersky's engine for BitDefender, just curious

 

Its probably more to do with how much they pay for it than any performance issue:-after all its all down to profit with a commercial product,probably pay a kind of royalty to the company providing the engine on every copy sold,if Bit Defender charges less and performs as well or almost as well then G Data make more for themselves rather than whoever makes the engine they use under licence