AVG vs. Avast vs. AntiVir

By Deletedforeverhaha
in Smart Home, Network & Security

 Share

Recommended Posts

Grand Master

ViperAFK

Posted
Posted

I'd go with Avast! I get a lot of false positives with AVG and it often doesn't detect things avast and other av's I have used do. Antivir has the best detection rate but the downside is you get ads when you update. They all have a relatively small footprint. You can customize which modules you want to install avast i.e if you don't want im/p2p shield you can choose not to install them.

Mentor

Deletedforeverhaha

Posted
  • Author
Posted

I chose AntiVir. Avast! seems to be a memory hog while AVG has a history of lagging behind others security wise. AntiVir supposedly has one of the highest detection rates and it's light. NOD32 is the best to me since it's so light but it's payware and I don't want to waste money on "protecting" my system.

Grand Master

Denis W. Veteran

Posted
  • Veteran
Posted

Another one for AntiVir free. AVG7 free was okay but 8 got a bit too heavy resource wise, not to mention slowing down copies of Firefox with the link scanner. Same goes for Avast.

AntiVir puts about three processes in the background (avgnt, avguard, sched) which usually don't take up a combined 15 MB of memory. But personally I value CPU performance over memory usage, and of these three AntiVir had the least impact on the OS when performing ondemand scanning. Downsides are it flags too many false positives and the notifer window - the notifer window can be disabled, if you know which file to block and how to do it.

Also by default Avast is the only one of those three to offer updates without showing an annoying notifier window, but all three can be configured to hide the update progress window. (and Avast has funky "BLING! Virus database has been updated" and "OMG VIRUS ON YOUR COMPUTER" sounds. :laugh:)

Mentor

zerologic

Posted
Posted
Update: AntiVir uses ~9k memory.

The only "bugging" thing about AntiVir is the ad supported updater. Overall, it's a good program.

If anyone can give me results that say that Avast! is lighter, then take a screenshot of its memory usage.

Thanks.

Create a new update job with a frequency set to "daily at a particular time".

You can also edit the existing update to this mode. Avira doesn't open the notifier pop up window anymore.

Grand Master

spaceelf

Posted
Posted

Most commonly seen memory usage numbers are only part of the story anyway. Many apps are actually using significantly less than people believe, as they may be using a shared pool with other apps or other things...

I'm no expert in memory management mind you, but I've read enough.

Rising Star

ProiektHat

Posted
Posted

i have tested the three....Avira is very good but i got this problem with updates:it just hang out at 50% CPU usage for awhile before completing the task.

Avast is really user friendly and you barelly notice in your system but somehow avast setup.exe decided to go on a continous loop eating 20% of CPU and no way to kill it even with process exlorer so,Avast off you go. Finally AVG 8.0....i am enjoying it so much. Updates are extremely fast...ok, i haven?t even notice them, but i know it is updated. It has no profund impact on your system performance has i tend to give priority to CPU sage over memory usage...i haven?t notice till now CPU hang out due to AVG....maybe now and then when you install a new program or move a large new file to you HD but not very obtrusive.

Grand Master

spaceelf

Posted
Posted
Haha, first three posts are the best

If you say so. It's not bloody likely that anyone has done an in-depth analysis of all three. Even if someone had installed all three, they still wouldn't likely have done a proper analysis.

Heck, it's not too likely many people have even done a basic analysis of all three, which is why you're seeing what you're seeing.

All I know is I REALLY hated Avasts interface.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Posts

    • Secure Boot

      By cork1958 · Posted

      Simple answer is yes, you will still get the Windows updates and as long as browser is up to date, you will be good. Only thing secure boot does is protect you against boot level threats and make it harder to install other OS's. I've been looking into this pretty thoroughly lately myself as wifes computer has secure boot disabled plus my other, older computers that run Linux, don't have secure boot enabled. Have seen all kinds of questions about this on the Linux Mint and MX Linux forums. Just don't suddenly enable secure boot now.
    • Ford execs say they made a mistake when they replaced human engineers with AI

      By TsarNikky · Posted

      How many other companies will follow Ford's lead? Or, have they already gotten lazy and become enslaved to AI--and now can't figure out how to get out of that mess.
    • The Trump administration doesn't want you to use OpenAI's GPT-5.6 without its approval

      By TsarNikky · Posted

      Why would any self-respecting intelligent person follow any recommendation by Donald's GOP administration? With almost two years of fabrications, deceit, and blatantly illegal behavior, why believe them now? They had best be gone after the November 2026 election, so we'll wait and see.
    • AltSendme 0.4.1

      By Copernic · Posted

      AltSendme 0.4.1 by Razvan Serea AltSendme is a minimal, cross-platform application designed for fast, secure, and private peer-to-peer file transfers. It allows users to send files or entire directories directly between devices without relying on cloud servers, accounts, or any personal information. Everything is encrypted end-to-end using modern protocols like QUIC and TLS 1.3, ensuring both strong security and low-latency performance. Transfers are verified with BLAKE3 for data integrity, and interrupted downloads automatically resume, making the experience reliable even on unstable connections. You can transfer anything—images, videos, documents, and more. Integrity checks are performed on both ends, so your files are automatically verified for correctness during both sending and receiving. AltSendme works seamlessly across local networks or long-distance links, capable of saturating multi-gigabit connections for extremely fast delivery. With built-in NAT traversal and encrypted relay fallback, it connects devices almost anywhere. The app integrates with the Sendme CLI and will soon support mobile and web platforms. Fully free and open-source, AltSendme offers a lightweight, privacy-first alternative to traditional cloud-based services, removing size limits, upload costs, and unnecessary data exposure. AltSendme 0.4.1 changelog: Release Highlights Self-hosted relays: Run your own iroh relay so transfers don't rely on public infrastructure. Includes a full deployment template in deploy/relay/ with Docker Compose for a VPS and configuration examples for production use. Fly.io support: One-click deploy template for Fly.io, including a quick-start config (fly.dev.toml) for testing without a custom domain, plus production setup with Let's Encrypt and your own hostname. Relay settings UI: New Settings → Network panel to choose how AltSendme connects: automatic public relays, custom self-hosted URLs (with optional auth token), or disabled. Test connections, verify latency, and see live relay status in the footer. Disable relays: Turn off relay servers entirely when you only need same-network transfers (e.g. LAN). Direct connections only. No relay hop required when devices can reach each other. Android graduates from beta: Android is now part of the regular release cycle alongside desktop. APKs ship with each version (universal, arm64, and armv7). Other improvements Private relay access control via shared auth token Relay fallback notifications when a custom relay is unreachable Broadcast mode toggle in sharing settings Android release build fixes (split-per-ABI APKs, universal APK preservation) UI polish: mobile safe-area insets, dropzone layout, transfer progress animation Bug fixes for minification-related serialization issues and system tray icon loading What's Changed feat(relay): add relay status functionality and settings UI (a120cdf) feat(relay): implement custom relay server configuration and verification (51276c7) feat(relay): add configuration for private relay access and enhance observability features (48fbabf) feat(relay): enhance relay URL validation, display connection status (d4fffa0) feat(relay): add RelayChangeGuard component and enhance relay-related translations (16ba514) feat(broadcast): add toggle setting for broadcast mode in sharing UI (ca6d977) fix(relay): correct QUIC discovery port, pin image, templatize fly.dev (52a2ba5) fix: More broken serialization due to minification (67491a9) fix(android): preserve true universal APK across per-ABI builds (e9f256f) fix(ui): conditional safe-area insets padding on mobile (1182f0e) refactor(transfer): CircularRing component animation fix (944572b) chore(android): drop x86 and x86_64 release APKs, keep universal+arm64+armv7 (34ada0b) Download: AltSendme 0.4.1 | ARM64 | ~9.0 MB (Open Source) Download: AltSendme for MacOS | Android Links: AltSendme Home Page | GitHub | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
    • Why Delta Chat is the best decentralized messenger you have probably never tried

      By zikalify · Posted

      You are mostly right about the ephemeral nature of it. As I mention in the article, if you dont add a second device or take a backup of your account before uninstalling it, then yes you will lose access to your account. That said, in terms of actual user experience when you sync multiple devices your message history carries across and there's also a Saved Messages chat like there is on Telegram to send messages and attachments between your installs. But yh, what you point out are correct and its not trying to emulate Messenger or Telegram.

  • Recent Achievements

    • Week One Done
      flexorcist earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Month Later
      Woland13 earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Woland13 earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • One Year In
      bernmeister earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Week One Done
      Scoobystu earned a badge
      Week One Done

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      495
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      225
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      150
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      75
    5. 5
      FloatingFatMan
      71
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!