AV With the Smallest Footprint

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  1. Posts : 4,772
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       #51

    Tews said:
    With the anti-virus being one of the most important component of your system, and ram being so cheap, why is this even an issue??? Its like being in the ring with one hand tied behind your back...
    Well Tom here in India it not that cheap to get a RAM
    If i need to buy 2 GB of RAM it have to spare around my 10 days salary.
    Anyways i'm planning to upgrade my Computer then why should i waste money and in new Computer it would be DDR 3 or DDR 2..
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  2. whs
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       #52

    Night Hawk said:
    Tews said:
    With the anti-virus being one of the most important component of your system, and ram being so cheap, why is this even an issue??? Its like being in the ring with one hand tied behind your back...
    Killobytes? If something was chewing up gigabytes that would be a concern far more then a few kbs and a few there.

    The largest process running here is seen in the image being the svchost.exe taking more then any av processes.

    Hmm, what is this svchost.exe actually running? It is probably this guy - it does all the work:

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  3. Posts : 8,375
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       #53

    Capt.Jack Sparrow said:
    Tews said:
    With the anti-virus being one of the most important component of your system, and ram being so cheap, why is this even an issue??? Its like being in the ring with one hand tied behind your back...
    Well Tom here in India it not that cheap to get a RAM
    If i need to buy 2 GB of RAM it have to spare around my 10 days salary.
    Anyways i'm planning to upgrade my Computer then why should i waste money and in new Computer it would be DDR 3 or DDR 2..
    On the new build you will likely see a good 4gb or more depending on which flavor of 7 you plan to run there(32bit or 64bit) and simply won't be worried about a few killobytes!

    whs said:
    Night Hawk said:
    Tews said:
    With the anti-virus being one of the most important component of your system, and ram being so cheap, why is this even an issue??? Its like being in the ring with one hand tied behind your back...
    Killobytes? If something was chewing up gigabytes that would be a concern far more then a few kbs and a few there.

    The largest process running here is seen in the image being the svchost.exe taking more then any av processes.

    Hmm, what is this svchost.exe actually running? It is probably this guy - it does all the work:

    And if you below what you are covering up with the information prompt you will also see other instances of the svchost.exe running as well. That's what you have to take into consideration there since several instances will be running at the same time with each seeing a different amount of ram being used depending on what you have running at the time.

    When looking at the image here you can how that looks.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails AV With the Smallest Footprint-svchost-multiple-instances.jpg  
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  4. Posts : 2,685
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64
       #54

    Svchost.exe is a wrapper for dll's which cannot run by themselves.
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  5. whs
    Posts : 26,210
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       #55

    Frostmourne said:
    Svchost.exe is a wrapper for dll's which cannot run by themselves.

    Right, .dlls have to be run either by a svchost.exe or by a rundll32.exe
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  6. Posts : 8,375
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       #56

    And you will see several instances at times depending on how much is loaded in the background. what was interesting there was those weren't from MSE, AVG, or another other AV or antimalware program but from having two IE windows open there.

    Most av programs will take about 45-60mb of memory once you add all the processes up. The MSE was quite a bit less while still comiing in at some 75,000K while running a scan.
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  7. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 ultimate x64
       #57

    Hello,

    I just wanted to say trusting something like MSE is not smart. Microsoft does not keep up with viruses like Norton, AVG, etc... Please if your going to give advice know what your talking about.

    Experienced Technician
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  8. whs
    Posts : 26,210
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       #58

    cpuguru said:
    Hello,

    I just wanted to say trusting something like MSE is not smart. Microsoft does not keep up with viruses like Norton, AVG, etc... Please if your going to give advice know what your talking about.

    Experienced Technician
    How experienced is this Technician??
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  9. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 ultimate x64
       #59

    Would you like professional years or total amount of years working on computer systems? When someone is posting asking for which has the smallest footprint while on a budget it makes me cringe as people talk about how they only use MSE. For the technical user this would be an ok approach for proactive scans, but most users aren't in this category and with as many computers that have come into our shop because they were told that MSE would suffice I had speak up. I could go on and on about how I technically don't have a proactive antivirus and yet have never had anything past some spyware on each scan but what good would that do for those who aren't as equipped... I will say that if your looking for something with a relatively small foot print and has scored high on detection rates than I would most definitively suggest Avira free or paid version.

    Thank you,

    CpuGuru
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  10. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #60

    Webroot antivirus
    Near-Zero Impact on Performance and that truth
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393918,00.asp
    Is this one i use and i find is lighter on my pc than MSE
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