Panda Global Protection - Light or Heavy?

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by elvis1959, Feb 6, 2009.

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  1. elvis1959

    elvis1959 Registered Member

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    Does anyone have experience running Panda Global Protection 2009? Some user reviews complain that it is extremely heavy on resources, but others insist it runs light. I know that differences in hardware could account for the variance, but I was wondering if anyone here has had personal experience as to the resources used.
     
  2. hawki

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    My experience is that it is light. I don't remember the exact amount of cpu and ram but i do know that it was surprisingly light.
     
  3. TechOutsider

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    I have to agree.
     
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    Heavy! :(
     

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    is this light ? Hope this is not true if yes they must be joking
     
  6. Martijn2

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    Something that uses a large amount of disk space does not necessarily mean it's "heavy" on the machine
     
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    The table shows the RAM usage ... :rolleyes:
     
  8. Martijn2

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    Ouch, ok, that sure is massive then
     
  9. TechOutsider

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    Just try it out; I used it in a VPC w/o any major performance loss. Ram usage is not a huge deciding factor.
     
  10. Kerodo

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    My experience with it on Vista x64 was that it's a bit on the "heavy" side in that it seems to slow down overall system performance somewhat, especially browsing. Norton 360 and McAfee were actually lighter. I'd recommend avoiding it.
     
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