Lightweight antivirus needed

[shapeshiftinglizard]

I have a very slow mechanical hard-drive paired with very little ram (4GB DDR2), and the built-in antivirus in Windows decides it's always appropriate to check by disk whatever I want to do. I need something that doesn't flag my development tools on my hard-drive as risk potential.

[Geekie]

Have you tried out MalwareBytes? I've never encountered trouble with this on my computers and I've been using MalwareBytes as my goto antivirus for years.

It's also the only virusprogram I would recomend anyone to get. Download here: https://www.malwarebytes.com/

(Their official site)

[lookpuppy]

No  antivirus, the best way to not get a virus is to not go on skeychy websites or download sketchy programs. According to bitwit thats how he has been virus free for 3 years. Watch Bitwits video called like how to keep your computer fast or speed up your pc

[lookpuppy]

5 minutes ago, shapeshiftinglizard said:

I have a very slow mechanical hard-drive paired with very little ram (4GB DDR2), and the built-in antivirus in Windows decides it's always appropriate to check by disk whatever I want to do. I need something that doesn't flag my development tools on my hard-drive as risk potential.

I think it is this one.

[Geekie]

2 minutes ago, Fruitsnacc said:

No  antivirus, the best way to not get a virus is to not go on skeychy websites or download sketchy programs. According to bitwit thats how he has been virus free for 3 years. Watch Bitwits video called like how to keep your computer fast or speed up your pc

This also.

I just have it because my work requires me to have one and MalwareBytes is the only way I feel I can decide myself if I want it to do anything. But people do mistakes and if you are not 100% sure you can go without getting anything sketchy getting some kind of antivirus does not hurt.

[Geekie]

If you do decide to go with no virus program, getting LastPass (or another password manager, but I've tried many of them and LastPass is by far my favorite). This way you can feel pritty safe that you will lose your most precious accounts if you get a virus / hacked. Also makes the chance of actually getting hacked lower since you rarely have to type in your passwords since it autofills  

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 hours ago, shapeshiftinglizard said:

I have a very slow mechanical hard-drive paired with very little ram (4GB DDR2), and the built-in antivirus in Windows decides it's always appropriate to check by disk whatever I want to do. I need something that doesn't flag my development tools on my hard-drive as risk potential.

You can just tell Windows Defender to ignore that folder. Any other AV may do the same thing too or give you another set of false positives.

[LogicalDrm]

Bitdefender is lightest I've used.

 

And on side note, Malwarebytes isn't antivirus. It's anti-malware and I would only recommend it as only line of defense if you pay for full version.