Please recommend a free anti virus for EEEPC 904HD

DCFC79

savemoney wrote: »

For isofa sake


Malwarebytes.org is good and free

malwarebytes is good i use online armor for my firewall and its ok,

Antispam

I use superantispyware its better than malwarebytes but it ain't free

Old_Sherlock

Malwarebytes does not provide resident protection in the free version,

but is usefull as an alternative to ad-aware.

kiki21

Sorry for starting the new thread, I did do a search first.


But I was asking for recommendations that were particularly ‘Lite’, and not such a drain.
As this is a fairly new netbook, with limited resources ( unlike my quad core) I wanted to know if there were ones that should be avoided as I didn’t want to crash her shiny new laptop or slow it down to snails pace.

A lightweight resident anti spyware, firewall and anti virus should be enough for her useage.

thomas01155

Antispam wrote: »

I use superantispyware its better than malwarebytes but it ain't free

Superantispyware has a free and paid for version

Antispam

Yes but superantispyare when I used the free one wont remove it but will only detect it

thomas01155

Are you sure if you look on there site it says "SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition is 100% Free and will detect and remove thousands of Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, KeyLoggers, Dialers, Hi-Jackers, and Worms."

Antispam

I had two bad viruses a few months back. MWB and Trend IS didnt remove it. MWB did detect it though SAP removed it within minutes and had to reboot

MWB wont work properly in Vista 64 not the program that runs in taskbar its a known issue. I didnt have Vista when I had the 2 viruses above

Old_Sherlock

Superantispyware ..again no real time protection ,no auto updates ,no scheduling in the free version.

isofa

kiki21 wrote: »

Sorry for starting the new thread, I did do a search first.


But I was asking for recommendations that were particularly ‘Lite’, and not such a drain.
As this is a fairly new netbook, with limited resources ( unlike my quad core) I wanted to know if there were ones that should be avoided as I didn’t want to crash her shiny new laptop or slow it down to snails pace.

A lightweight resident anti spyware, firewall and anti virus should be enough for her useage.

It's probably best just to run a light anti-virus and firewall, then just run periodically a anti-malware/spyware scanner to check for any issues, rather than having a resident one (unless you visit a lot of suspect sites!).

I don't run any resident anti-spyware, just do the odd scan, but never find anything.

SpywareBlaster is a good inoculation system, which takes no resources once updated, and run, protecting against many suspect sites and sites.

Other than that SpyBot S+D, MalwareBytes, AdAware etc are all good anti-spyware scanners.