light anti virus

[Alexefc]

Hi, just wondering as this machine cant be updated with win 7 if there is any light antivirus programs still available for xp?

I have recently installed avast which took ages to boot and then the cpu was at 100% a lot of times and even web browsing was choppy.

Then installed panda and then avg which took even longer to boot up and sometimes I could not use internet browser as it would not load up.

At the moment I am using Microsoft essentials which is perfect but it will not update due to end of support for it.
e2160 cpu,d946gzis mobo and 4gb ram
thanks in advance

 

[Deleted member 1898488]

avira if you want full real-time protection, otherwise Clamwin is extremely lightweight but requires manually scanning questionable files but scheduling full computer scans to occur weekly is still possible.

 

[Alexefc]

Thanks for the reply.

I did not try avira as xp was not listed in min specs. I have now tried it and its a little smoother and has slightly less cpu consumption than avast.

Thats even with a minimal avast installation and turning of other web shield settings.

Will use avira for now then on this older spec machine (and I might install it even on my newer machine!) and thanks for bringing Clamwin to my attention it looks good

 

[Deleted member 1898488]

Glad I could help.