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| Thread ID: 91597 | 2008-07-12 03:44:00 | tuning Avast for best performance | utopian201 (6245) | Press F1 |
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| 688086 | 2008-07-12 03:44:00 | Hi After the few threads mentioning Avast as the best free antivirus, I restored my windows image (was getting slow anyway) and use Avast instead of Norton Antivirus. Apparently Avast is supposed to be quite light weight, but it seems to do quite a lot in the background. My computer is quite old (Athlon 1800+, 1.5gb ram), so I'm quite keen to ditch the unnecessary stuff. What are the options you all do without? |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 688087 | 2008-07-12 03:55:00 | Well, if you dont use Outlook, IM programs or P2P programs, you can disable / terminate the scanner You dont need the web scanner and you dont need script blocking (If you use Pro, its not in Home) |
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| 688088 | 2008-07-12 05:02:00 | Avast is one of the slimmest AVs I know of (beats all but Nod IMO) - are you sure something else is not to blame?? Have a look in Task Manager under the processes tab. On my machine, all 5 of Avast's processes take about 65MB or memory with all features enabled. www.imagef1.net.nz (running XP) I have 1GB of RAM and a 2.5GHZ Celeron in this machine (laptop). |
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| 688089 | 2008-07-12 05:47:00 | Just checked mine its the same as Jwil1's | gary67 (56) | ||
| 688090 | 2008-07-12 07:16:00 | On a pentium III, 700 odd mb processor, Avast with all its apps running hurt. :waughh: | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 688091 | 2008-07-13 04:11:00 | Avast is one of the slimmest AVs I know of (beats all but Nod IMO) - are you sure something else is not to blame?? Have a look in Task Manager under the processes tab. On my machine, all 5 of Avast's processes take about 65MB or memory with all features enabled. www.imagef1.net.nz (running XP) I have 1GB of RAM and a 2.5GHZ Celeron in this machine (laptop). 65mb for me constitutes bloat :p I've disabled the p2p, IM and email shield and the totals are: ashDisp 1236k ashServ 16344k ashWebSv 11356k aswUpdSv 196k 29mb for antivirus....I guess thats the state of things now days then :( |
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