Very small as in micro antivirus required

Asked By knowles cooke 10 points N/A Posted on - 02/26/2013

Hi there,

I have an urgent requirement. I have a laptop with windows 7 on it and the HDD that came with the laptop is very small in capacity. I have searched many antivirus software's on the internet. But all of them has a very big installation footprint. What I desperately require is a micro antivirus as in with a small installation footprint so to not waste too much precious disk space on my laptop

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Answered By Fran Kristopher 240 points N/A #167500

Very small as in micro antivirus required

Hi Knowles, I believe I can be able to help you find a solution to the problem you have, there are different types of antiviruses in the internet or that can be found but the best one I would advise is the kaspersky anti-virus.

You can be able to find the micro version of AVGwith a small installation footprint from the website; https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26567645/Smallest-footprint-Free-AntiVirus-program.html

 

I hope this helps

 

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Answered By Fraserr Dawn 0 points N/A #167501

Very small as in micro antivirus required

Hello Knowles,

To save your space on hard drive you need to download a light weight antivirus. Here is the link to the Panda cloud antivirus. The special feature of this software is that it is a light weight software which is cloud based which connects to Panda Labs online. The drawback of such anti viruses is that they do not have the complete features which other antivirus provides. Still for the protection of your system, i recommend you to download it.

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Answered By Sharath Reddy 590495 points N/A #318699

Very small as in micro antivirus required

If your laptop runs on Microsoft Windows 7 then you can definitely install an antivirus. There are antivirus programs that don’t eat much space on the computer. Check the following free antivirus software:

• AVG Free Antivirus – supports Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10 both 32-bit and 64-bit. It requires Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD Athlon 64 or faster processor with SSE2 support, 1 GB RAM, 2 GB free space, 1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution, and internet connection for downloading updates and program activation.
• Avast Free Antivirus – supports Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10. It requires Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD Athlon 64 or faster processor with SSE2 support, 1 GB RAM, 2 GB free space, internet connection for product activation and downloading of updates, and 1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution.
• Avira Antivirus – supports Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10. It requires Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD Athlon 64 or faster processor with SSE2 support, 2 GB RAM, 2 GB free space, and internet connection for product activation and downloading of updates.

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