Just installed a trial of Kaspersky AntiVirus. It has slowed down my PC tremendously.
Am looking for an antivirus NOT Norton. Any advice would be appreciated, or how to configure Kaspersky as I like the job it does. Thanks in advance



Moved from the XP Forum. ~acklan~

I have been using AVG Free Edition for several years (Sinice '03) and it is very sweet. Most of my computers are P-III 500Mhz with 512mb of RAM running W2k. Very light on resources and have yet to have a virus infect one of my computers.

Same light use with Avast and AntiVir. On W2K you just don't know the're there. They play nice with ZA firewall free.

If kapersky is slowing you down, give the Bitdefender 10 a try, also Nod 32 has a smaller footprint, on the other hand, how much ram does your machine have?

1 GB. Havent heard of Bitdefender 10 but Nod could be OK. Thanks

Actually all freeware antivirus program mentioned here are listed in our " Freeware Replacements For Common Commercial Apps" Forum.

I'll second either AVG (if you need a freebie) or NOD32, they're both good scanners with minimal system impact.

Thank you all for your input. Will now make a decision.

I agree. AVG antivirus free never slows down your PC, even if only 128M of RAM!