# The "lightest" anti-virus

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-lightest-anti-virus/36264>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [October 1, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-lightest-anti-virus/36264 "2007-10-01T11:30:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-lightest-anti-virus/36264/1 "2007-10-01T11:30:41Z")

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AVG used to be really light, now it takes 40 fucking megs.

What’s out there?

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**Author:** ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-lightest-anti-virus/36264/2 "2007-10-01T11:49:38Z")

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ClamWin is probably the lightest but that is because it doesn’t include an on-access scanner…

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**Author:** ![JCuz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jcuz/32/7338_2.png) [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-lightest-anti-virus/36264/3 "2007-10-01T11:51:47Z")

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I have been using avast, it barley makes a blip on my resources and it caught stuff norton did not(has real time protection)

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**Author:** ![TgDn32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tgdn32/32/7360_2.png) [@TgDn32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TgDn32)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-lightest-anti-virus/36264/4 "2007-10-01T12:50:26Z")

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I run etrust, not one complaint here.