Dukasaur wrote:/ wrote:Well, as long as you're on a schedule with your viruses, you should try SUPERAntiSpyware or Malwarebytes. I've been using the free versions of both for years; they literally can't bog down your stuff with random scans because they only scan when you tell them to, which means you aren't really getting the full safety of an antivirus unless you pay, but I recommend giving it a shot anyhow. I can generally run both of them at once, twice over in the same time it takes Norton to do the same full scan. Plus the quickscans are typically enough to catch whatever is bugging you at that moment, and those only take a few seconds to a few minutes.mandalorian2298 wrote:I just use Malwarebytes and Spybot Search&Destroy to scan the system every so often. I do have Windows Defender, but it's turned off.
Do they suck back a lot of memory?
You've got to understand it's not just the memmory. It's processing, It's disk access, it's bus access, L1&L2 cache but Celeron processors lack one of these caches, and even the ram, this guy is talking 4G but it's DDR3 or something like that, yours is probably a SIMM ram which is a lot slower. Now, if you run out of Ram then, the system uses a pagefile that means it's using the harddrive as ram.
I don't run windows in my laptop anymore, but when I'm running an antivirus somewhere else I don't do anything on the computer while the full scan is going. Even if it's a fast system. Probably I would put the computer to download something to make use of the time but that's it.
Depending on the antivirus, for a full scan it has to access every file in the system (some exclude some files) and scan it's contents and compare it to it's database. That's a lot of work. So an antivirus complete scan will slow down any system.
Now, most antivirus today have a shitload of parts like sandbox, full scan, schedule, real time scan, real time spyware scan, blah blah. So they will take a lot of resources.
Malware bytes and those programs were not as advanced in detection like full antivirus programs, but they were detection some other shit. But maybe they've gotten better but don't kid yourself, once you tell them to protect on real time we are talking of a process in memmory and intercepting everything that happens and running it's scan.
WIndows Defender is not for you, it's for windows 8. MSE is the windows defender in win xp and vista.
A good option for you is to download one of those Free antivirus boot cd, which you could run once a week and it won't be installed in your computer. But you say your cd writer is fried so I don't know.. I wouldn't tell you to load the antivirus in a usb stick.. might get complicated.
So the answer you're looking for is MSE for basic security. You could also install Spyboot Search and Destroy (not sure if it's still the best but it was) and run it. Unfortunatelly it will try to run real time protection as well so you gotta make sure you check on options that it doesn't do any other thing that sit there waiting for you to tell it to scan.
