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| Thread ID: 103542 | 2009-09-27 19:32:00 | Microsoft's 'Norton-killer' out this week | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 814478 | 2009-09-28 19:27:00 | I just thought I'd throw this out there, and see if anybody else is keen to compare the Memory Usage of other A/V products. I've just removed McAfee Total Protection 5 from my laptop, firewall uninstalled at the time of checking: Engine~1.exe 36828K - McAfee Engine Service McSACore.exe 1776K - Site Advisor McShield.exe 40688K - On-Access Scanner Service myAgtSvc.exe 4604K - Managed Services Agent Thats a grand whopping total of 80MB+ ... :-/ Does anybody have Avast4 handy (I've nuked all my machines it was on in the last few weeks, reformatted and deliberately left it off), as well as AVG8 and NOD32? I'm curious to know the RAM of everything, the base service, the Outlook add-ins etc (if applicable) :) Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 814479 | 2009-09-28 19:30:00 | Size and how much of a hog it is is secondary to how well it detects malware, at least for me. Both is ideal, but I'd rather have accuracy then smallness. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 814480 | 2009-09-28 19:33:00 | Well it's already picked up something that both Avast and McAfee missed this morning ... Which genuinely surprised / impressed me :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 814481 | 2009-09-28 20:03:00 | MS dont have a good track record here previous(recent) good MS AV software design..... AV deleting the whole inbox as it couldn't clean email as they were downloaded & MS not seeing this as a problem I'd wait & see what the detection rates are 3-6 months from here. They will probably drop the whole product within a year. |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 814482 | 2009-09-28 20:06:00 | MS dont have a good track record here previous(recent) good MS AV software design..... AV deleting the whole inbox as it couldn't clean email as they were downloaded & MS not seeing this as a problem Christ that would make you rip your ration book losing ya emails as they were coming in. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 814483 | 2009-10-02 02:56:00 | I have installed in on 2 laptops so far. Windows 7 RC and Windows XP. Running well. |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 814484 | 2009-10-02 03:37:00 | Tried it, but the time between updates seems a bit casual. Ripped it out and just as a precaution formatted the drive before re-installing Win 7, and the drivers, and the software, and the updates and wondered why I bothered with the thing. I just was not happy with the requirement to let M$ grope around and send messages to God-Knows-Where more often than it updated the virus database. Their Spynet seems uncannily appropriately named. I think that Avast! Pro will do for a while (although I liked Kaspersky better). |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 814485 | 2009-10-04 19:27:00 | If M$ was sending other information ... it would have been picked up by now by the the many people scrutising there programs for it. News of this would already be out if they were. |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 814486 | 2009-10-04 20:04:00 | There is a registry "hack" to disable spynet. You can also block the spynet servers by putting 2 entries in the hosts file. If youre paranoid about the spynet option. Not too sure if the registry hack actually works, all it does is show that neither basic or advanced is selected under the MS spynet option in MSE | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 814487 | 2009-10-04 20:45:00 | Leaving the MSSE program safely lodged on the MS servers is secure enough for me. When spoken aloud, MSSE sounds a bit messy. |
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