How much does your AV product impact performance?

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

Concerned Citizen — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:15:16 GMT

We use Panda AV at my work and let me tell you....JUNK!.

I wish we used AVG Corporate.

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

Brian M. — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:37:44 GMT

My experience has been that AV can have a huge impact on performance. For instance, on my Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 system (2.0 Ghz Dual Core, 3GB of RAM) with Norton AV running I was running at a sustained memory usage of 1.5 GB (OS only, no applications beyond Aero, and sidebar), and file transfers between my local HD and my USB HD took forever. On other other hand with CA eTrust I was running at about 950 MB (same config as above) of sustained memory usage. I now run AVG Free and run at about 850 MB of sustained memory. Plus file transfers are faster and I don't feel like I'm a slave to my AV solution.

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

Keith Combs — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:50:35 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to run an anti-virus tool at all? Those were the days. But wasn't that like 20 years ago...

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

dovella — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:18:12 GMT

i not use antivirus with Windows Vista

One year 0 Problem,

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

Keith Combs — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:37:52 GMT

No antivirus? So you are just using the built-in firewall, anti-phising, popup blocking, etc. abilities of the OS? Are you freaking crazy? Just teasing. That's pretty interesting.

FYI, I removed CA eTrust and installed Microsoft Forefront on two of my machines. I also ran a copy test with my old Compaq. So far in my testing, the performance is about the same. I need to test my x64 system and see how it's doing.

To be continued...

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

tony — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:41:39 GMT

no av and practice lua diligently and this is even with xp! no virus found even with root kit analysis..

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

Keith Combs — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:56:08 GMT

I can't do that. I either have to have CA eTrust or Microsoft Forefront installed to connect to my corporate network. NAP in action.

re: How much does your AV product impact performance?

tony — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:44:44 GMT

Basically my point was that if your patched to the hilt sit behind a nat and run lua even xp is pretty solid in terms of security and that MS should feel pretty good about the efforts surrounding UAC.. but runas is good enough for me!