-- Posted by stratocaster69 at 2:56 am on Sep. 30, 2008 are their any (decent) anti-virus programs that dont slow your comp down heaps i bought mcaffe today it slowed down the computer to a damn near stand still computer and it took me 2 hours to uninstall it then i tried a free alternative (avg) i had used it before and i worked fine but this time it slowed down my comp a fair bit (not as bad as mcaffe) but still not good. any way, are their any decent programs that hardly or preferably dont slow down your comp -- Posted by jamesish at 2:57 am on Sep. 30, 2008 Are you on Mac or PC?  And what version? -- Posted by stratocaster69 at 2:59 am on Sep. 30, 2008 xp pro -- Posted by bigredron at 3:01 am on Sep. 30, 2008 i use AVG. on old pcs u will lag a bit, but it is a good program. Dont schedule a PC scan for when you are using it and it shouldnt be too slow... -- Posted by stratocaster69 at 3:03 am on Sep. 30, 2008 Quote: from bigredron at 8:01 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 i use AVG. on old pcs u will lag a bit, but it is a good program. Dont schedule a PC scan for when you are using it and it shouldnt be too slow... my comps about a year old and i didnt schedule the daily scan -- Posted by senorita smirnoff at 3:03 am on Sep. 30, 2008 they all slow down ur comp, they take alot of processing power to run, set them to scan while ur not using it -- Posted by stratocaster69 at 3:06 am on Sep. 30, 2008 Quote: from senorita smirnoff at 8:03 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 they all slow down ur comp, they take alot of processing power to run, set them to scan while ur not using it yeh i know and i wasnt scanning and i have never had this problem before (except for when i used norton) -- Posted by Aphrodite54 at 3:10 am on Sep. 30, 2008 They all will but just keep away from Norton. It's good but it takes up a lot. I have NOD 32 Buisness Edition and it works great. 54 -- Posted by stratocaster69 at 3:12 am on Sep. 30, 2008 Quote: from john cena54 at 8:10 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 They all will but just keep away from Norton. It's good but it takes up a lot. I have NOD 32 Buisness Edition and it works great. 54 k i might look at that and yeh i had norton and yeh i learnt my lesson -- Posted by espresso8097 at 5:50 am on Sep. 30, 2008 Avast runs well enough on any system I have used.  Is available for free and does not significantly slow down a 1.3ghz soc.423 P4 with 384mb PC800 RAM. -- Posted by bigredron at 6:09 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 Quote: from espresso8097 at 5:50 am on Sep. 30, 2008 Avast runs well enough on any system I have used. Is available for free and does not significantly slow down a 1.3ghz soc.423 P4 with 384mb PC800 RAM. wow thats a shit pc lol -- Posted by stratocaster69 at 7:51 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 Quote: from espresso8097 at 10:50 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 Avast runs well enough on any system I have used.  Is available for free and does not significantly slow down a 1.3ghz soc.423 P4 with 384mb PC800 RAM. yeh it used to for me -- Posted by espresso8097 at 8:02 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 Quote: from bigredron at 8:09 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 Quote: from espresso8097 at 5:50 am on Sep. 30, 2008 Avast runs well enough on any system I have used.  Is available for free and does not significantly slow down a 1.3ghz soc.423 P4 with 384mb PC800 RAM. wow thats a shit pc lol That is a decent PC from 2001.  The only problem is that the price of PC800 RAM never went down, still costs a shit-load to add just 256mb to it.  As it has to be dine in pairs and was only popular with servers and workstations.     -- Posted by nikki at 10:27 am on Oct. 1, 2008 Try Avast! The home version is free - it's reliable and doesn't slow down or freeze your PC. -- Posted by Rhapsody at 4:27 pm on Oct. 2, 2008 Due to the nature of anti-virus programs, especially those that have on access protection, your computer will be slowed down when using them. The more features an anti-virus has, the higher the chance of it slowing down your computer. However, Avast seems to be able to do a decent job and do it to an extent that you may forget it is even there. -- Posted by mwymer01 at 2:44 pm on Oct. 22, 2008 both kaspersky and NOD32 are the best AVs out there, low on resources :D