Least cpu-intensive firewall and antivirus?

casioculture wrote:
> I noticed that most of my cpu usage when leaving my computer on while
> it downloads a torrent is by either the firewall (sygate) or the
> antivirus (avast). This is despite having an AMD64 processor (though
> using regular windows xp - 32).
>
> I'm not pleased at this. What are the least cpu-intensive firewall and
> antivirus I could use?

If you really are seeing this then from what i remember from evaluating both
this isn't typical. I'd make sure you don't have a system problem or see if
somehow those programs got configured with bone-headed settings before
blindly changing things.
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In article <1128887674.174059.61980.TakeThisOut@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
casioculture.TakeThisOut@gmail.com says...
>
> I noticed that most of my cpu usage when leaving my computer on while
> it downloads a torrent is by either the firewall (sygate) or the
> antivirus (avast). This is despite having an AMD64 processor (though
> using regular windows xp - 32).
>
> I'm not pleased at this. What are the least cpu-intensive firewall and
> antivirus I could use?
>
>
Sygate - smc.exe uses 13,000 kb on my machine

NOD32, which is very low on resource usage, uses 19,000 kb.

It is my impression that Avast takes more resources, but not a lot
more.

Louise
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louise wrote:
> In article <1128887674.174059.61980 DeleteThis @g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> casioculture DeleteThis @gmail.com says...
> >
> > I noticed that most of my cpu usage when leaving my computer on while
> > it downloads a torrent is by either the firewall (sygate) or the
> > antivirus (avast). This is despite having an AMD64 processor (though
> > using regular windows xp - 32).
> >
> > I'm not pleased at this. What are the least cpu-intensive firewall and
> > antivirus I could use?
> >
> >
> Sygate - smc.exe uses 13,000 kb on my machine
>
> NOD32, which is very low on resource usage, uses 19,000 kb.
>
> It is my impression that Avast takes more resources, but not a lot
> more.
>

Hello, I'm not concerned about memory-usage. I have lots of memory.
It's cpu-usage when downloading a torrent.

> Louise
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"casioculture" <casioculture DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I noticed that most of my cpu usage when leaving my computer on while
> it downloads a torrent is by either the firewall (sygate) or the
> antivirus (avast). This is despite having an AMD64 processor (though
> using regular windows xp - 32).
>
> I'm not pleased at this. What are the least cpu-intensive firewall and
> antivirus I could use?

NOD32 2.5 for the AV - low CPU usage and good detection to boot
Windows Firewall (I know - it's only inbound)

Clive
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"casioculture" <casioculture.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> louise wrote:
>> In article <1128887674.174059.61980.TakeThisOut@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>> casioculture.TakeThisOut@gmail.com says...
>> >
>> > I noticed that most of my cpu usage when leaving my computer on while
>> > it downloads a torrent is by either the firewall (sygate) or the
>> > antivirus (avast). This is despite having an AMD64 processor (though
>> > using regular windows xp - 32).
>> >
>> > I'm not pleased at this. What are the least cpu-intensive firewall and
>> > antivirus I could use?
>> >
>> >
>> Sygate - smc.exe uses 13,000 kb on my machine
>>
>> NOD32, which is very low on resource usage, uses 19,000 kb.
>>
>> It is my impression that Avast takes more resources, but not a lot
>> more.
>>
>
> Hello, I'm not concerned about memory-usage. I have lots of memory.
> It's cpu-usage when downloading a torrent.
>
>> Louise

eTrust AV (the one year eval version) is using 8452 KB in memory....I'll see
if I can determine CPU usage
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"Joe Canuck" <Joe.Canuck.TakeThisOut@-remove-gmail.com> wrote in message
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> casioculture wrote:
>
>> I noticed that most of my cpu usage when leaving my computer on while
>> it downloads a torrent is by either the firewall (sygate) or the
>> antivirus (avast). This is despite having an AMD64 processor (though
>> using regular windows xp - 32).
>>
>> I'm not pleased at this. What are the least cpu-intensive firewall and
>> antivirus I could use?
>>
>
> Definitely Kerio v2.1.5 for the firewall.
>
> I'm happy with avast! as an antivirus, although most of my first line of
> defense comes from myself rather than the software.
>

Avast is the best. It guards my network with the tenacity
of a pit bull. If Avast, running on my gateway machine,
detects a virus, trojan, etc, in any file being transferred,
the program halts all network activity, until I log into the
gateway machine and acknowledge. Avast halts all
activity on the network to protect the machines on my
network. That is how good it is.
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dadiOH wrote:
>
> No idea. With my 1200MHz Athlon, Kerio 4 uses a bit less than 1%.
> AV-wise, avast! uses about 0.3%. If avast! is also used to monitor
> email and web, add about the same for each. Not a big hit...

I gave up using avast! not because it missed threats or it used too much
cpu but because it used too much ram and it slowed the whole system down
(even when using the simple "pure-antivirus" mode). I am now using avg.

--
Antoine
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