AV With the Smallest Footprint

hi !

IggyAZ said:

Everyone here know MS Security essentials has the smallest memory footprint.

if you run taskmanager as ADMIN & select to show processes from all users,
you willl see that MSE uses more memory.....

hi !

Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

IggyAZ said:

Everyone here know MS Security essentials has the smallest memory footprint.

Attachment 47449

Is AntiMalware related to MSE ??
Because my MSE service is just showing 316K

MsMpEng.exe is MSE´s main process, "the protection",
msseces.exe is just the user interface.

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...

Right, I don't understand that either. Why would anybody worry about RAM. At first it is cheap to add more and then the system hardly ever uses all the RAM anyhow (at least if you have enough RAM to fit the system). Most of my RAM is used for caching - and I have only 3GBs. Only 28% is currently being used to perform the requested tasks.

Night Hawk said:

Capt.Jack Sparrow said:

IggyAZ said:

Everyone here know MS Security essentials has the smallest memory footprint.

Attachment 47449

Is AntiMalware related to MSE ??
Because my MSE service is just showing 316K

Gee what is 316K anyways? Let's see that adds to 1024Kbytes subtract 684Kbytes = less then 1/3 of a mb! out of what? 2gb

As hackerman pointed out..
You guys looking only to the User interface resource consumption.

whs 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...

Right, I don't understand that either. Why would anybody worry about RAM. At first it is cheap to add more and then the system hardly ever uses all the RAM anyhow (at least if you have enough RAM to fit the system). Most of my RAM is used for caching - and I have only 3GBs. Only 28% is currently being used to perform the requested tasks.

It's not only about RAM but also CPU cycles usage.
And for example for gaming even slightest change REALLY important.
You will understand me, if you tried gaming on the laptop.
And upgrading laptops isn't so easy.

jav, you are probably right on gaming. But I never played any game - even not hearts - LOL. So I have no clue what that could do to it.