Best free and lightweight anti-virus for windows?

Best free and lightweight anti-virus for windows?

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The default Windows Defender is more than sufficient.

Windows Defender is not lightweight.

If you're on W8.1/10 then Windows Defender, it actually does a better job than most free AV's and is lightweight.
If you're on W7 then MSE.

Common Sense 2016

Your brain.

Thanks guys!

Avira

Avast is too bloated anymore

I don't know what you consider "lightweight" but ESET is pretty much the only acceptable AV I've ever used.

AVG - 2-3 Processes, used it for years.

I found Avast runs like 10 processes

I use this

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Windows Defender/MSE with MBAM if you're paranoid.

>goes on Sup Forums
>asks for best freeware

kek

+1 ESET

>Windows Defender
Microsoft sells your data
>Microsoft gives third-parties access to Windows 10 Telemetry data
ghacks.net/2016/11/23/microsoft-gives-third-parties-access-to-windows-10-telemetry-data/

avast with just the files module

>anti-virus

Not using windows 10 and have disabled all "feedback" and telemetry. Got a extra hour+ of battery out of it too plus it runs faster. Its amazing how much useless crap Microsoft packed into almost every part of the OS.

literally every "free" proprietary program/service does this

It's bloated garbage, even LTSB.

No.

panda antivirus

360 TS
Back in the day
Try it!

How about learning some fucking common sense? Durr, lemmie disable my firewall and open dis .exe that unlocks my CPU cores...

Avira or Total360
I use MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit alongside them.

Honestly though common sense and Windows Defender (Win 8.1/10) or MSE (Win 7) are more than sufficient for most purposes.

morons, so you dont install AV software for your gramma who cant tell the difference between an email from you and a random hotmail with grandsonphotos.jpg.exe ?

How young are your grandparents that they actually have Internet?

Idiots. Now tell me how common sense protects you against rootkits, kernel level attacks and rights mitigation attacks. This is plebtier thinking by people who know jackshit about offsec and defsec.

Defender + Microsoft EMET

Steve Gibson (GRC) does not use any antivirus on his PC (Win7). And I think he knows more than you do, vermin.

>Steve Gibson
attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

>steve gibson
>no major release or any security research in the past 12 years
>has a history of false claims and fake security
Yeah right. Now that's a good example, untermensch.

I only find 2 processes. Strange. Maybe they're hiding somewhere.

>Now tell me how common sense protects you against rootkits, kernel level attacks and rights mitigation attacks.
I use Common Sense

wtf is a 'rights mitigation attack'? sounds leftist.

Common Sense 2016 + NoScript + AdBlock Edge + MBAE

Works for me

clamav

not free

if these were free you would've audited them and fixed the idiocy by now

I'd rather deal once in my lifetime with removing a rootkit or reinstalling than let my pc be hogged down by stuff like "updates" and "protection" my pc needs haven't changed in 15 years. Then why should my pc? I don't buy into the moneymaking fud.

All 3 of those options are free.
They have premium options sure, but the free options have everything you actually need. The premium shit is mostly useless stuff that makes normies feel 'safe'

a.k.a. Install gentoo

Only clamav is free.

Again. Avira, Total360, and MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit (not an antivirus. It's browser-level protection.) have free options which do what they're supposed to do.
Paying for them just gets rid of the occassional popup and unlocks a bunch of useless features for normies.

I should have made it clear that I'm this poster:

Avira, though Avast runs a bit better on old Pentium III-Pentium IV boxes.

ClamAV is free as in freedom, every other option is free as in free beer.

ClamAV is linux, no?
OP is looking for Winders AVs

ClamWin is a thing.
ClamSentinel gives it real-time scanning too.

Hm. How does it compare to other 'free beer' options?

I have used this setup on my netbook a few weeks ago.
It's a bit clunky and ClamAV/ClamWin is a bit trigger happy, since ClamSentinel decided that all my Touhou games were unsafe while I was copying them, but it's very lightweight and you can easily unblock things.

Hm. I'll have to look into it.