Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Reccomendations pls for a low-resource AV for Samsung N130 netbook

  • 29-12-2010 10:51pm
    #1
    KennyLegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭


    As per title....i need to replace my trial of McAfee soon and am looking for a recommendation on an internet security package that wont tax my already limited system. Ive got WIndows 7 with 1Gb of ram and the Intel Atom processor.

    Cheers,
    Ken.


Comments

  • #2
    KennyLegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭KennyLegend


    bump...maybe avg free?


  • #3
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I will give you a vote for AVG free. Its light and quite accurate. Also maybe check out Nod32. I have not used it but I have heard good things.


  • #4
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    I have found avg free far from light weight.
    I'd recommend Eset but it isn't free. Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials would be a good place to start.


  • #5
    KennyLegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭KennyLegend


    unnameduser wrote: »
    I have found avg free far from light weight.
    I'd recommend Eset but it isn't free. Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials would be a good place to start.

    I've used a lot of different packages over the years but always on my pc which is quite powerful hence I wouldn't really notice Internet security running in the background.

    My netbook came with mcafee but it's quite taxing.
    I've loaded on microsoft security essentials and ill see how I get on with it.


  • #6
    boffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭boffy


    +1 with Avast for AV and Comodo for Firewall. Have them running on a netbook after the Macafee free trial ended.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Verres
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭Verres


    +1 for Avast Free. It's lightweight, unobtrusive and pretty comprehensive.

    I'm not mad for Comodo as it seems overkill for most purposes. If you're running Win7 you can just stick with the built-in Windows Firewall. If you run this along with Avast you should be fine.


  • #8
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    bullguard, running narly 3 years on a gb toshib netbook and its flying. never had a virus and when I installed it after having avg free it picked up things straight away and sped it up. Not too expensive either and great support


Advertisement