Hi guys! I was wondering what would be a good antivirus software that didn’t lag down video games that much (If much at all!), Or even slow down your computer! I have AVG INTERNET SECURITY installed at the moment, but after uninstalling, discovered that much computer (and internet speed) all went significantly up! So is AVG FREE EDITION better? Or do you recommend anything else that protects good, but doesn’t lag down PC games?
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1 Random Time // Nov 13, 2008
Run a firewall, but turn your antivirus off when your gaming, you don’t need it running all the time, only for occasional scans. (Once a week, for example)
2 nVidiaMan // Nov 13, 2008
if possible you should get some more RAM. One more gb would probably help
3 Swibs // Nov 13, 2008
Any antivirus will work, you just have to shut off the "on-access" scanning, or "resident protection"… whatever it's called in your specific program.
This mechanism works by sitting between the operating system and the kernel storage drivers, scanning everything that is read and written to the storage devices. Since storage devices (hard drives, optical drives) are slow enough as it is, adding another layer of scanning and filtering only slows crap down even more.
If you turn this off, your data I/O won't be scanned as it's read and written, and you'll enjoy your speed "boost" without having to completely remove the antivirus.
The downside is, of course, that threats won't be detected until a periodic or manual scan is performed. This is fine if you set it to do a periodic scan everyday or something.
Make sense?
This same concept applies to "network protection", as far as scanning every packet that's sent and received. Just disable it to regain your original network performance.
A lot of that network protection crap can just be disabled for good. Most security suites contain this extraneous protection that is frankly a bit overkill for home PCs. Just a simple firewall (Windows firewall even) is sufficient protection.
4 Tony RB // Nov 13, 2008
You have to have a firewall on to protect your computer from port-scanning but while you are gaming you should not need the anti-virus enabled in real-time nor the anti-spyware.
You absolutely need to re-enable both of them (unless you have an all-in-one like AVG Internet Security or Norton or McAfee) when you visit other websites; there are jerks putting malicious software on so many websites, and then posting links to them - even here in Yahoo answers (they get deleted when they are found out).
And there are those malware people corrupting legitimate websites.
You could do this - have a computer dedicated to gaming with no anti-malware software other than a firewall, and have a separate computer with all anti-malware enabled for other web-surfing.
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