a-squared uses 620kB memory for realtime protection !

hi !

jav: what other programs was running when you took the screenshot ?
if there is any kind of activity that needs to be monitored then a2 "wakes up" and uses more memory.

Airbot: yes, running taskmanager as admin & Show processes from all users.

i posted a question on Emsisoft´s forum:
"hi !
if i´m not doing anything on my computer (that requires files to be scanned),
how much memory uses a2 ?
i´m asking because in W7-32 when running taskmanager as admin & showing all processes,
i only see a2guard & a2service and they use 640kB together.
are there any more a2-processes running ?
are those numbers really correct, or is taskmanager "lying" ? "

i got this reply:
"No, there are no other processes running. That really is the memory footprint when being idle in the background with just the on-execution scan and Malware-IDS running. It gets a lot higher when you actually do use the GUI and the on-demand scan though (100+ MB) since it is necessary to keep all signature data in memory at that time. But on normal day to day work it rarely raises above 10 MB after we introduced the memory usage improvements a few months ago.

Best regards,

Fabian Wosar [Administration/Technical Support]
Emsi Software Team - www.emsisoft.com
"

since then i have had my eyes on taskmanager, and i´ve seen some variations,
but it stays below 1MB when idle in the background.
when i do something that needs monitoring, it jumps up a few MB´s, then it drops back down again.

hackerman1 said:

hi !

jav: what other programs was running when you took the screenshot ?
if there is any kind of activity that needs to be monitored then a2 "wakes up" and uses more memory.

As far as I know there was no other process.
Because it was really fresh install.
I installed Windows 7 to my another laptop, did Windows upgrade and installed A-squared.

Let me check how it is now.

ok, I checked it.
Now it's after installing drivers and some programs:




As you can see, not really much running at the moment.
But, yes, all A2 modules are activated:

hi !

i also has everything in a2 activated, but much lower memory usage.
a2guard=1.488kB
a2service=608kB

right now when writing this, a2guard dropped down to 156kB.

hackerman1 said:

hi !

i also has everything in a2 activated, but much lower memory usage.
a2guard=1.488kB
a2service=608kB

right now when writing this, a2guard dropped down to 156kB.

ok, I believe that means again that every case is unique.

It's probably because we have different version of Windows 7 (you Enterprise, me Ultimate) and different PC's.

But anyway I like it so far.

So I probably keep it on my second laptop.
Problem is can't decide Firewall to it.
Probably will go with Pc-Tools or Online Armor Free

hi !

jav: i don´t know why there should be any difference between W7-versions.
what happens with your memory usage, if you leave your computer on, and don´t do anything ?
because i´ve noticed that after i have done something that "wakes" a2, it sometimes takes several minutes until it drops down again.
fx. yesterday a2guard stayed around 14MB for maybe 5 min. after i had finished checking my email.

i also like a2, it´s very good at detecting & has got a lot of rewards.
with this memory usage it must be a good choice if you don´t have plenty of memory.
for me it´s no big deal if it uses 110MB or perhaps even a little bit more when scanning, if it uses almost nothing when idle, that in my opinion must be better then a program that constantly uses a lot of MB´s.

btw, just noticed a new record:
a2guard=184kB
a2service=96K

WOW !

hmm.. yeah.
I didn't tried leaving it.

Each time it was several minutes after Pc was turned on.
I will try to leave it doing nothing for some time.

hi !

Richter: the requested screenshot...