Less Intrusive, RAM-Eating AV Program Alternative to McAfee, Please!

[Peter Tatiner]

I have about reached the saturation point with McAfee. I'm always jammed up against my RAM
limits--which are high--and I have to reboot after freezes several times a day.

I have been following this n/g for a while and have seen lots of recommendations.

But which will do a good job of protecting my puter and not be as invasive as McAfee? I want it to
run in the background but I want it to leave a much smaller footprint than the one I've got now.

Suggestions, please. All are welcome and gratefully appreciated.

Windows 98, FYI.

TsIA.

 

[Tait]

i ran mcafee security suite retail purchase on a clean awesome perfect
running windows xp. problems. mcafee and norton are garbage. i am currently
testing panda, f-prot, nod32. f-prot has almost 0 footprint on system
resources, and it is reccomended by about.com anti-virus team.
http://antivirus.about.com/cs/beforeyoubuy/tp/aatpavwin.htm I like you, am
sick and tired of pig norton and mcafee, nothing but problems happening on a
wicked perfect awesome running windows xp. i have zero errors when norton
and mcafee are NOT my anti virus. i test anti virus programs then revert my
hard disk back in time using the awesome acronis true image,
http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ , right now i am staying with
f-prot. http://www.f-prot.com/

 

[Kerry Liles]

I have used Computer Associates EZ-Antivirus since the days when it was
Innoculate-IT personal edition and think it works very well and they have
exceptional record when it comes to releasing updated signatures. Well worth the
$20 US (including the first year of updates). Subsequent annual updates have
been $9.95us for the last two years...