frstbnd Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 recently I've installed a copy of Norton AV 2006 with spyware remover and internet worm protection and it doesn't eat up my CPU usage to 100% even if internet worm protection is turned ON. Note that if you're using Norton AV 2005 it's internet worm protection has a conflict with uTorrent and result to a 100% CPU Usage after a couple of hours of using uTorrent (6 hours +) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 good to know. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Thanks for the heads up. I'm sure other Norton users will find it useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Thanks for the info, but I find it a bit weird that any user who appreciates µT's light resource usage would use NAV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 @splintax: what would you recommend then?BTW: I use NAV 2003 and it hardly takes any resources as far as I can see. could you let me know what kind of AV you are currently using and how much system resources it takes?Thank you,Hofshi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 I'm not splintax, but I can't resist this chance to spam AVG 7 Professional: 8 MB Mem, 3 MB VMem (And the updater uses another 3.5 MB Mem + 1.5 MB VMem) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 my NAV 2003 takes about 8MB Mem and 6 MB VMem. is there a real reason to change to another AV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Did you count all (five or so) processes for Norton? If you did, there's no reason to change the software because of memory usage.Edit: To be more specific:All processes named "cc*.exe"navapsvc.exelvcoms.exesymlcsvc.exe (this one might not be there) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 I don't have these ones:lvcoms.exesymlcsvc.exe I only counted these:navapsvc.exenprotect.exenvsvc32.exeI didn't count:ccapp.exe 10.5MB + 7MB VMemccentmgr.exe 2.5MB + 2MB VMemdamn. I better switch to another AV. Thank you, Animorc for openning my eyes...Is AVG pro free? is it as effective as NAV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Some people have had problems with NAV2k6's worm protection, it causes µTorrent to get a NAT error even if you add the proper exceptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 AVG Pro is not free, but there is a free edition (http://free.grisoft.com/) that lacks a few features. (The only difference I've noticed is that it doesn't support file exclusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 ClamWin FTW. Free forever and very light on resources. Some will say get Winpooch with it, but I've had a few problems with that... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 1c3d0g , Animorc : thank you for your recommendations.All that is left now is to decide between the two options... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Ok, I have to support avast http://www.avast.com get avast! free home edition. Avast has a webscanner so it scans websites on-demand and a P2P sheild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 well, now I'm confused... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demon-boy Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 First I've heard of a problem, I use Norton 2005 with the worm protection and never had any trouble. Am I just lucky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 WinMX_67: ClamWin ▶ Avast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 do you mean that you switched from Clamwin to Avast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Nah, Hofshi. :/ You know what I mean... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Did you mean clamwin>avast! if you do then your wrong . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Yeah, that's what I mean. But we all know you've secretly installed clamwin, so it's OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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