The anti-virus you recommend installed for windows 8?

[tal ormanda]

it is extremely slow. 1 CPU core is hogging the CPU alls the time and it uses 180MB RAM all the time:

scrolling through the Explorer is nearly impossible, because of Defender.

I've removed the crap with this tool:

I have a terrible computer, and mine is nothing like yours.

[MagicAndre1981]

Defender has one of the best performance of all testes antivirus-tools, but detection-rate is really bad.

:lol:

No impact?

each icon in explorer opens with a 2 sec delay.

No impact?

Good to see that your test shows that my NOD32 is better in performance. Be happy with your your crappy MSE/Defender and is terrible detection rate

Edited November 5, 2012 by MagicAndre1981

[geneticplasma]

each icon in explorer opens with a 2 sec delay.

Maybe you should upgrade your Pentium II to a Pentium 4 CPU

[xpclient]

If you are a very smart geek, you can turn off Defender. Defender IS slow, especially the one in Windows 8 because it's MSE now (same engine, doesn't matter). But it does slow down. If you must use an AV, use a free one like Avast that's light on resources.