Subject:Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Posted by: Zacchino

Date:3/6/2005 11:04:18 PM

I've been working with Symantec Norton 2002 to 2004, and tryied a few days ago the great Alwil Avast! Antivirus 4.6. The advantage goes to Avast! as it has an function to shutdown all services it uses during a music session.

I've been wondering if you guys could tell which antivirus (beside these two) eats the less memory / ressources...

Norton needs too many services to run imo...

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:3/7/2005 5:22:10 AM

Get either Panda or AVG. Both are very lightweight and unobtrusive. (I think Panda is best) I now use the Antivirus in ZoneAlarm Suite and I got a BSOD the other day in one of its modules while capturing video so I can’t recommend it.

~jr

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:3/7/2005 10:54:01 AM

Adding to what JohnnyRoy said, if you have a network, consider having one computer do all the scanning while leaving your DAW alone. I realize that this makes your DAW system more vulnerable, especially if it connects to the Internet itself, but any computer user should know just to be careful in what they do.

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Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: Vocalpoint

Date:3/8/2005 7:33:52 AM

"Get either Panda or AVG. Both are very lightweight and unobtrusive."

Really? After reading this thread - I grabbed a demo of Panda and installed. I was astounded to see 7 new services and a total of 58MB of RAM in use to do pretty much nothing. By comparsion - my trusty copy of Norton AV Pro 2003 uses 8MB and does the same thing.

If Panda claims this is low resource usage - I would like to see what high resource usage actually is....

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: RasKeita

Date:3/8/2005 4:12:36 PM

I agree with mD I personally don't use any anti virus on my DAW as it never goes on the net, occassionaly I go to the Symantec site and allow them to do the threat risk test, that includes a virus scan,. That way there is no additional wares on my DAW. I suppose I'm in a good state because I have a dedicated Daw and another machine for internet and such. On that machine I have Norton Antivirus 2005...Level Vibes

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:3/8/2005 7:32:44 PM

> Really? After reading this thread - I grabbed a demo of Panda and installed. I was astounded to see 7 new services and a total of 58MB of RAM in use to do pretty much nothing.

My apologies. When I used Panda (over a year ago) it is was very light weight. It sounds like it is just as bloated as Norton now. I will stop recommending it.

AVG is still very lightweight. I just installed it for a friend not too long ago.

~jr

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: Zacchino

Date:3/8/2005 7:57:16 PM

AVG isn't protecting that well (doesn't do any scriptblocking, or websurvey for example). But is very light yep.

But it seems that AVG 7.0 is heavier than Avast antivirus (http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/avg7.htm)

So I'll stick with Avast Antivirus that seems just great ^^. Although I'm a Norton Antivirus 2004/5 fan. It's better for my free memory ^^ and Avast seems less a headake when you encounter bugs (whereas with Norton, it's always a headake, except when it works).

Thanx all for helping me make my decision !

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: Zacchino

Date:4/2/2006 8:58:39 PM

Sorry for bumping old posts, but I just found out which antivirus software were the most light weighted, and the most trustable :

Eset Nod32

Don't look any further, this one is quite, won't bother you around, and very high rated nowdays for its virus / malware detection skills.

I've also tryied Kaspersky Antivirus, which is also very light weighted and all, but it seems like it does some annoying random scans while working on a projects, which stresses out the hard drives.

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the be

Reply by: GLYPTICminority

Date:4/2/2006 9:57:37 PM

AVG runs best on my systems.

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the be

Reply by: stuffedspacedog

Date:4/4/2006 6:43:06 PM

NOD32 for sure. The only minor thing is if you use the SonicOne VST, NOD32 thinks it's a virus, so you have to include it in the exceptions list. Other than that you should never notice it's there, and it's extremely low on resource usage.

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the be

Reply by: RMS

Date:4/5/2006 11:55:14 AM

I use Trend Micro and turn Real Time Scanning off while recording or rendering. I've had no problems recording 8 channels of 24-bit, 96KHz w/ my Firepod latency set to 5 ms. This is also while listening to the click track and sometimes up to 4 more tracks. I'll be getting another Firepod and diasy chain them together soon. I'll let you know if it does 16 channels.

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: Spheris

Date:4/5/2006 12:03:20 PM

FWIW,

Norton antivirus, really none of them are healthy for system performance, but there are a few extra things you might want to consider. Most of them also install active -x extensions into your browser etc that are active as explorer extensions as well since the shell explorer is always running and those are running along with them

It's not a huge difference but disabling those extensions in the IE >tools>manage addons has gone a long way towards stopping some of the odd errors and improved overall responsiveness to the systems here

Subject:RE: Antivirus and DAWs... Which one is the best ?

Reply by: thirdnostril

Date:4/5/2006 12:04:41 PM

" I now use the Antivirus in ZoneAlarm Suite and I got a BSOD the other day in one of its modules while capturing video so I can’t recommend it."

Did you hear that Zone Alarm got caught putting spyware in its anti-spyware software?

Maybe they don't think it's spyware if it's for THEM...