nod32 or fprot

i have old celeron 566 with 96mb sdram pc. i'd to install AV on this machine. what would the best choice ? NOD32 or F-Prot ?

 

I would say in your case F-prot, you could probably get NOD32 down pretty low by disabling everything except resident shield.

There's some Dr Web users here that say it runs real light.

 

what setting i should use on NOD32 to reduce resource usage ?

 

You should wait a bit for a NOD32 expert, I would just use the resident shield but I don't use NOD32 so can't really ansewr.

In truth I wouldn't waste any money on an AV, go buy more memory instead and use a free AV until you have more $$.

 

no actually this my office pc. i use KAV on my laptop at home.

 

Guess that eliminates Free AV's

Test the AV's and see how low you can get them to go....F-Prot is a for sure thing on your PC, it runs real light.

Where you live isn't memory cheap ?

[edit]= https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=86487

 

maybe i should buy a new pc rather than buy memory

 

Turning off some modules in NOD32 doesn't reduce memory usage.. But NOD32 uses very low resources..

 

i just try installing NOD32 and its seems good enough and not using much resource.

 

About this much on my good ol' pc

 

See my numbers..

 

wow I must be doing something wrong then.. hmm strange

 

Maybe NOD32 has been just updated, or performed a scan...

 

Nope just turned on my pc, and it stays at 17.334 now.
I'm not complaining though, as it's all very fast - However the numbers on your system are quite low...
Research time I guess

 

It may be due to a difference in O.S. between the two computers.

 

I would imagine so - my WIN2k machine has

nod32krn.exe @16,700 K
nod32kui.exe @2,200 K

Pretty similar to Brian's.

 

Mine same as Detox

 

The lowest I can get is 14.xxx - But only if I disable the startup scan.
Also it seems to increase to 15.xxx when checking Gmail via Gmail Notifier.

I'm running XP SP2 just so you know

 

Yep, very similar to my numbers (XP).

 

I looked at my numbers again (XP SP2):
nod32krn.exe - 1640kb
nod32kui.exe - 400kb

 

I would say Nod32 is better than F-Prot,and light on system resources as well.

My Nod32 on Win XP SP2:

nod32krn.exe 2,944K
nod32kui.exe 696K