Please recommend a free anti virus for EEEPC 904HD

kiki21

I have bought my daughter an EEEPC 904HD for Christmas and would like to add a free anti virus program.

I use Avast on my home computer but read in a review that this won't work.
can anyone recommend a program for it.

It runs XP home with 1GB of RAM and a 900MHz Celeron M processor so I guess it can't be anything too 'heavy'

Thanks

Antispam

avg.com seems to gets a lot of good feedback

http://free.avg.com/

esuhl

AVG is quite bloated compared to Avira Antivir. On a test PC I have, AVG used 38MB of memory, while Antivir uses just 7MB. When I looked at the effectiveness of each antivirus back in January, both stopped 100% of known viruses that were "in the wild", but Antivir had ever-so-slightly better heuristics for unknown viruses. Avast was somewhere in-between the two.

You can download Avira Antivir here:
http://www.free-av.com/

Fifer

I've used AVG for years, but ditched it recently because it seems to become more bloated with every release. I'm now using Avira and I'm quite happy with it.

mikegahan

I agree that Avira is the best of the free versions and is approved by a lot of the experts as being better than some of the paid versions. I have it myself, also it does not slow your machine down like some programmes

DCFC79

Fifer wrote: »

I've used AVG for years, but ditched it recently because it seems to become more bloated with every release. I'm now using Avira and I'm quite happy with it.

i recently changed from avg to avira due to the fact avg was using too much resources whereas avira uses less

kiki21

Thank you for the recommendations I will download Avira Antivir and give it a try.

Any suggestions for firewalls and anti-spywares that aren't too resource hungry would be most welcome too.

savemoney

For isofa sake

kiki21 wrote: »

Thank you for the recommendations I will download Avira Antivir and give it a try.

Any suggestions for firewalls and anti-spywares that aren't too resource hungry would be most welcome too.

Malwarebytes.org is good and free

isofa

savemoney wrote: »

Malwarebytes.org is good and free

This is an anti-malware scanner, not anti-virus.

Editied to add, OP you are now asking about malware.

Can I suggest the OP reads the FAQ and Stickies at the start of this forum, where all these topics, with many recommendations are covered?

savemoney

I never said it wasnt the op also asked on post 7 "Any suggestions for firewalls and anti-spywares that aren't too resource hungry would be most welcome too."

I was responding to there last post

isofa wrote: »

This is an anti-malware scanner, not anti-virus.

isofa

savemoney wrote: »

I never said it wasnt the op also asked on post 7 "Any suggestions for firewalls and anti-spywares that aren't too resource hungry would be most welcome too."

I was responding to there last post

Fair enough! :cool: To their last post

These topics are very well covered in the FAQ / Stickies at the start of this forum, not sure there is really a need for yet another thread though...

A good start for the OP would be here: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=78360