Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:53 pmby volunteer
I run Avast on my Vista 32 - and its great. But I was wondering if there is an even lighter anti virus out there which takes even less of the computer resources.
-thanks
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:39 pmby Daube
I run Avast on my Vista 32 - and its great. But I was wondering if there is an even lighter anti virus out there which takes even less of the computer resources.
-thanks
Avast is quite nice. I have installed it just like you, and everytime I launch FSX, I just deactivate the resident protection, which means that the antivirus does not use any CPU or hardrive ressources anymore.
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:14 pmby hhomebrewer
I use NOD32 for which you pay, but I have heard lots of good things about AVGFreev8.5...
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:33 pmby SeanTK
I use Avast as well, and I think it is pretty much the best one out there right now resource-wise.
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:28 amby Leigh
I had avast but since my reformat i dont have any seams to be working very good.
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:57 amby laurits
I use Avira, much better user interface than Avast:
http://www.free-av.com/
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:17 amby Daycab
I'm kind of liking the new Microsoft Security Essentials. In addition to being free, the definitions are updated three times daily...
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:01 pmby wilki
I use AVG 8.5 free. Just disable the resident shield when running FS
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:43 pmby a1
AVG free is much better than microsoft's protection.
Re: Which free anti virus will give best result with FSX?
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Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:02 pmby mykV
I am using a free version of VIPRE which I find that running with PC Tools Firewall Plus, which is also free. I do not have any conflict issues with any of the Flightsim programs or any of the other issues I have seen some anti-virus/firewall combo's can give. I did previously have AVG 8.5 free but the database manager became corrupted and it caused the program to stop functioning, so I was left with no alternative but to un-install it and found it would not re-install because of the corruption. And having now run my combo for over ten months with no problems or issues, I will stick to the freeware versions, OK some do not have the full functionality of the paid ones, but they do a very good job for all that. Cheers Myk