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swarfega said:

erm I know that the first leaked version of MSE ran two processes, one was fairly small and the other was as mentioned above around 50mb.

However with the new version I can only spot one process running at a mere 3mb oO

that's very light.

Same here Nick ... 3645K when Idling ... @50mb while doing a full scan.. Not what I'd call bloat at all..

Now, how light is it on your CPU?
When you load a page, how much CPU usage does MSE use?
NOD32 uses between 2-3%, with its web scanner.

swarfega said:

erm I know that the first leaked version of MSE ran two processes, one was fairly small and the other was as mentioned above around 50mb.

However with the new version I can only spot one process running at a mere 3mb oO

Just installed it on my friends computer, it uses 2 processes.
You need to click "Show processes from all users"
So both will show up.
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1668/msejfkf.png

Seems pretty light, not as light as ESET NOD32 though which is what I use
I installed MSE on my friends computer since he had no AV.

If you want to get a better handle on how to check your memory usage and *potential* memory usage, then you'll need to use a tool like Process Explorer or else use Home - Process Hacker - which is co-developed by our very own dmex

In fact, Both of those will show you a wealth of information, provided that you enable the appropriate columns.

As an example, check out my SS from both with my system apps, with regards to M$SE:

Process hacker



Process Explorer

swarfega said:

hmm I uninstalled/reinstalled MSE and its still only showing one process, namely msseces.exe. The antimalware service is running and also ticked as enabled in settings.

Did you Tick the SHOW PROCESSES FROM ALL USERS at the bottom ?