Coding is of course a key factor to that extent. Of course having a product that does not slow you down is better. Can one have his or her cake and truly eat it too? And this is not on just one PC, but many running XP at office and at home. I wish that this type of testing was done on any page that is reporting top Thank you for your had work. What may well provide the most secure may also lend to system drag. This standard result is effectiveness of protection but leaves out system hog reports. As a geek, I try to stay current, but unless you specify your search to include system usage when looking for the top antivirus, you just get the standard results. Malwarebytes is very very ligth! I just read this review for the first time and it impressed me quite a bit. I have NOD32 and Malwarebytes on my pc and working very well together.

Number of Processes: 6 Processes Monitored: dwarkdaemon. Avira Free Antivirus Number of Processes: 6 Processes Monitored: avgnt. McAfee AntiVirus Plus Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition 1. Sophos Endpoint Security and Control Emsisoft Anti-Malware 7. If you want to jump straight to the list of results to see how your antivirus got on, they are at the bottom of page 2. The software is in reverse order with the heaviest Private Working Set usage for idle and scan combined listed first, going down to the lowest score and most efficient. Below are the results for each antivirus package along with the average Working Set and Private Working Set scores in Kilobytes KB while idle and during a scan. The average score was then taken for each antivirus with all processes created by the application added together.Īll antivirus software was fully updated before testing using windows 7 bit, and the memory readings were taken using Sysinternals Process Explorer. We decided to approach this task by gathering memory readings over a period of time.

A problem with taking memory readings is there are several different numbers you can look at. As you might expect, testing an antivirus product for its memory usage is certainly not an exact science because the program is never standing still and nearly always doing something in the background. One of the most common applications that will load with Windows and stay resident in the background while the system is on, will be your chosen antivirus software.

Having just a few memory or processor hungry programs loading into the system tray on boot can have an adverse affect on the performance of your computer. One of the most common things users do to try and keep their computer running as smooth as possible, is keep control over which programs start with Windows.

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