A Good Antivirus for Computer Specified below...
@adit4money (183)
Pune, India
August 31, 2011 2:55am CST
I'm having a kind of old pc with me, just for internet access purpose.
Its having P-III 1100MHz CPU, and 256 MBs of RAM... Funny right! :D
I'm running Win XP SP2 on it, now I need an antivirus, which will not give much pressure on the memory.
I went for Bitdefender, its installation process just continued for some time, and then it hanged!!
I used Microsoft Security Essentials before, but it was unable to detect a virus, which made my system crash, so no MSE please!!
6 responses
@Olleenz (3398)
• Indonesia
31 Aug 11
Ouch .... you got old stuff with you.
After I see your spec, I think you need free antivirus with low pressure on RAM. I suggest Avira or Avast. I use Avira myself
note: if you have budget, try to increase your RAM at least 512 MB
@goggles213 (735)
• Philippines
7 Sep 11
I find AVG very heavy on the system, especially during updates and scans. I prefer Avira over AVG since it is lighter on the resources.
@akp100 (13640)
• India
31 Aug 11
Hi
Well I have only one experience of paid anti virus and that too long ago. So i can't tell you much about paid anti virus. But I am using free anti virus avast which is the good one. And I am sure that will run on your system smoothly.
Avg is also a option which is also available free. Even it was good when i was using in past. But since 3 or 4 years I am using avast only.
Well I have only one experience of paid anti virus and that too long ago. So i can't tell you much about paid anti virus. But I am using free anti virus avast which is the good one. And I am sure that will run on your system smoothly.
Avg is also a option which is also available free. Even it was good when i was using in past. But since 3 or 4 years I am using avast only.
@hazelmike (48)
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6 Sep 11
Hi, installing an antivirus keeps your computer slowing down that is based on my experience. Since your computer is quite old i suggest not to install any antivirus but instead install a program that is called DEEP FREEZE or SHADOW DEFENDER. Simple function of this programs, once you restart your computer it backs to its original setup. So no viruses can store in your computer once you restart it. Try it.
@sudheer1110 (44)
• India
3 Sep 11
Me too faced problems with MSE...i dont recommend it at all.
My system is also an old one same processor but recently upgraded to 1gb ram.
While using 256mb ram, i was using Avira and dint had any problem at all like haging of slowing down.
And its also better to kill all unwanted processes running in task manager it will speedup ur system
@microengineer (587)
• Indonesia
30 Oct 11
I have laptop with P-III 600 MHz and 384 RAM with XP SP2. I use Avast for the laptop and it can work well (Do not install all feature, just anti virus and network scanning)
But I am not sure with current version. I only use version Avast 4 for the old laptop.
AVG good if you can increase the RAM to 512 Mb.
