light weight software champs

i would like to know to know the "good" low resource & essential software’s out there
like Firewalls & Antivirus
and it has to be from your personal experience guys

i will start this off
a good low multi protocol messenger is Miranda
and infranview is a pretty compact and fast image viewer

Daemon Tools - Very low memory usage for a program that cracks and bypasses copy protection on the fly.
Cool Beans System Info - Great little program for showing ram, cpu and bandwidth useage,

I like programs you can run of a floppy , or cd with out installing. NSW is one I like . Norton Windocter and cleansweep come to mind.

Sygate personal FW - I use and recommend version 5.5 build 2516. Later builds can throw annoying errors on system shutdown/reboot. On my system they do anyway.

avast! Home Edition AV - is the lightest on resources in my experience. Virus signatures are updated on a near daily basis and it's free.

i know its just a name
but is Tiny Personal Firewall compact & anygood?

ccleaner is pretty lightweight.
but very powerful.

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Originally Posted by rossco

ccleaner is pretty lightweight.
but very powerful.

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ccleaner can also be hazardous to your data. :ph34r:

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=93144

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

ccleaner can also be hazardous to your data. :ph34r:

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=93144

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Ya hate to see some one loose data , but I use this program and installed on 5 other computers . Never had a problem ,and I never back up ! But he must have other issues (Linkin Park). I mean with just default settings you should be fine , he may have farted around with the settings . ;)

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

Sygate personal FW - I use and recommend version 5.5 build 2516. Later builds can throw annoying errors on system shutdown/reboot. On my system they do anyway.

avast! Home Edition AV - is the lightest on resources in my experience. Virus signatures are updated on a near daily basis and it's free.

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I posted about sygate fucking my P.C up, the reboots ect. I was well gutted when I had to change to another firewall. I might try an early build...see if thats any better.

A great AV for resourses is Norton AV lol...honest...

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Originally Posted by Expire

I posted about sygate fucking my P.C up, the reboots ect. I was well gutted when I had to change to another firewall. I might try an early build...see if thats any better.

A great AV for resourses is Norton AV lol...honest...

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Symantec AV corp . is not bad either . :)