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mtnbkr

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Good, lightweight antivirus application
« on: March 09, 2009, 03:03:18 PM »
I reinstalled AVG after rebuilding my laptop recently and am having problems.  It flagged a legitimate email I sent this morning as spam.  It only happened once, but I've had other problems with AVG's email scanner.  Before the rebuild, it was sending me notification of failed delivery of a single message every other day for months.  Neither issue is originating with the mail server, only locally via AVG.

So, what other antivirus problems do you guys recommend?

Chris
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2009, 03:29:02 PM »
I recently switched from the free AVG to the free Avira.
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2009, 03:51:33 PM »
After AVG got bloated and system-hoggish, I switched to Avast! Antivirus. It's had a much lighter system footprint so far compared to AVG.
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2009, 03:53:13 PM »
And a cool pirate theme!
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2009, 04:46:42 PM »
Quote from: Marnoot on March 09, 2009, 03:51:33 PM
After AVG got bloated and system-hoggish, I switched to Avast! Antivirus. It's had a much lighter system footprint so far compared to AVG.

+1  Same here, and haven't had an issue with it yet.
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2009, 05:12:17 PM »
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2009, 06:21:45 PM »
Thanks.  I think I'll try Avira first.

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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2009, 06:40:01 PM »
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2009, 06:50:57 PM »
AVAST
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2009, 10:33:13 PM »
Another vote for Avira--if you ignore its relatively high rate of false positives, its heuristics engine always lands in the top three of every AV comparison.
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2009, 11:08:00 PM »
I have Avira installed, but it's worth pointing out that a high rate of false positives is almost as bad as false negatives.  Too many false positives will cause you to start ignoring them at the risk of missing a true hit.

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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2009, 10:36:03 AM »
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It flagged a legitimate email I sent this morning as spam.

AVG Free or a pay version?   The free version doesn't, AFAIK, flag anything as spam.

Turn off spam filtering and install popfile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net) for that.
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2009, 10:39:50 AM »
The free version did it. The odd thing was, I was responding to an email that was legitimately sent to me.  My response was nothing more than my mailing address.  Doesn't matter, I'm tired of AVG's weirdness with email.  This plus the problem I had earlier with it telling me every week or so a message sent months ago was undeliverable (stopped when I reinstalled AVG) was the final straw. 

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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2009, 01:16:59 PM »
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Re: Good, lightweight antivirus application
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2009, 02:18:50 PM »
Quote from: CNYCacher on March 10, 2009, 01:16:59 PM
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I run it on the server.  I don't yet want it on the desktop at home.

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