Which antivirus for my not so new desktop?

i have a 2004 purchased system, my rig is

p4 1.8, 512mb ddr,
intel 845gv chipset,
ati radeon 9200SE AGP 128mb

m planning to purchase an antivirus as m done wit formatting everytime coz of these spywares n trojans.... kindly suggest me an app which wud run well but light on my system.
thanx,

Enjoy~!

nod32 v2.7

Simply go for Free and Lightweight AVG. Its gr8...!! Try it..!!

AVG8 is not lightweight.
His 512MB RAM pc would be sucked if any scans run.

Go for Avira/Bit Defender...NOD32 would also be a good choice.

ryt now m using avg free....n yes it does slow down d system while running regular scans....plus i dint find it effective with hardcore net surfing n usb exchanging.. i hv become frndly to trojans n spywares...

so was planning to buy one....ya m running win xp sp3 proffesional...

Enjoy~!

I use Avast Home! on my P4 2.0 GHZ machine which has 768MB of RAM. Its is light enough.

nah...i mean along wit being light enuf it shud be effective aswell....i mean much effective

Enjoy~!

Look, avast is very effective, same as a whole truckload of antiviruses out there as long as you keep updating and it is the best for older comps as it is pretty light.

+1 to Avast. Using it since a long time and very much satisfied.

You can use Avira Antivirus free edition. It is one of the best. BTW I am using Comodo Internet Security which has integrated antivirus and I am totally satisfied with it.

A

Go for avast home edition. It is a great antivirus and very light on resources.

hmm...so looks like i shudnt be goin for a purchase nw is it...

Enjoy~!

See, for paid version I (and all others) would have recommended KIS2009, but its very resource hog. All ur 512MB would be sucked by it ( well its a bit exaggerated, but quite cripples a low end PC ).

So, free AV is ur option...
Avira+Komodo my solution for u

^^
NOD32 v2.7 + Comodo firewall works out to be a much lighter option

aint the inbuilt windows firewall gud enuf....??? coz i neva bothered installing third party firewall apps till date....

Enjoy~!

Windows firewall???!!! If it was good we would not have recommended a separate firewall

^Yeah, XP firewall is horrible. Vista firewall is better, but not great again.

ok but how do u judge that...i mean any incident(s) that proved u this practically?

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AFAIK, XP Firewall scans only inbound connections and Vista scans both inbound and outbound connections. However, third-party software is better as is the case with most Microsoft bundled apps.

Agree with Techalomaniac. Morever 3rd part firewall allows you to have more control in the form of flexible rules & other advanced settings.

installed nod32...it has an personel firewall....is that enuf or shud i get yet another firewall

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installed nod32...it has a personel firewall....is that enuf or shud i get yet another firewall

Enjoy~!

^more than enough. Hope it isnt hogging your bandwidth though.

S

i have the same configuration and using avast for more than 2 years and it runs fine. hardcore pen-drive exchange is also my hobby

be brave, avast is enough

The BEST of all ESET NOD32 ver 4..

Plus get the free Comodo Firewall.

None of these will hog your PC resources and ESET proves the best in all the anti-virus tests

*www.eset.com/products/compare.php

The best choice in my opinion for your system is AVG Free version