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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!
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.
Svchost.exe is a wrapper for dll's which cannot run by themselves.
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.
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
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
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