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anyone know of a virus scanner that doesn't use too much system resource for my netbook?

Hi, I've got a new netbook and I need to put a virus scanner on it.

it's running windows 7 and isn't the most powerful machine in the world - it is AMD dual core 1.0GHz and 1 gb ram. I am only going to be using this netbook for surfing the web, streaming movies, playing DVDs. I was wanting some advice on a paid for virus scanner which doesn't slow your computer down to the speed of a tortoise. Any suggestions? You see I have had bad experiences in the past with both mcafee and panda that would take a perfectly quick computer and make them unusable due to how painfully slow they would become and how long they take to boot up.

kaspersky any good? only £14.99 a license for that.

Thanks.
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I agree, I really like MS Forefront (free) as well as Comodo.
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To add to the comments about AVAST and AVG, I tried both, and they were fine with respect to resource utilization, but each one had a problem with updates to one of my programs, thinking it was a virus (i.e., a false positive). I tried to get around it, couldn't, so moved on to MSE and haven't looked back. Just my own experience – sounds as if other folks have had better luck with AVAST and AVG than I had. Btw, I'm using MSE on an Atom-based netbook (but XP, not W7) and it works well. Regards, Joe
<<...so moved on to MSE and haven't looked back.>>

Concur 100%.
I used to buy bulk licenses of both AVG and AVAST for my customers - to get them the discounted rate.

After about 6 months of no reinfections with the MSE+MBAM combination, I forfeited the AVG & AVAST licenses and have stuck with a winner.
MSE is great, but remember if you are going to use MSE in on more than 10 computers, you need to use  Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection (licensed).  To quote exactly from the MS page (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials):

"Microsoft Security Essentials is available for small businesses with up to 10 PCs. If your business has more than 10 PCs, you can protect them with Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection."
"Hi, I've got a new netbook and I need to put a virus scanner on it."

I think we're talking about only one system here.
whoops - good point :-)
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Thanks guys, I've gone with MSE and malware bytes pro for the moment. Thanks for everyone's input.