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To: ILCUL8R who wrote (72204)9/23/2010 12:17:09 PM
From: ILCUL8R1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 110652
 
Should I remove AVAST and replace it with Microsoft Security Essentials?

Yesterday PM I removed AVAST and installed MSE. I did this on the 2nd drive just after it received a clone of C:, so it runs just like the main drive.

I find MSE to be a memory hog that uses more resources than AVAST, to the point I am considering staying with AVAST. Here are the comparisons of AVAST vs: MSE:

My machine has 2 GB of RAM and runs XP Pro with SP3.

Physical memory available with MSE 1.6 GB vs: 1.71 with AVAST
Page File usage 379 MB with MSE vs: 204 MB with AVAST
Memory usage of Firefox with MSE 97 MB vs: 64 MB with AVAST
The MSE process has MsMpEng.exe of 97 MB, AVAST has its process loaded with only 24 MB.

As I load a 2nd or 3rd instance of FF the disparity between the two only grows. BTW, I am running Memory Fox, which seems to be less active with MSE.

Is MSE worth using as it requires an extra 170 MB of Page File and 34 MB more RAM just to run FF? We know that the page file reads/writes are much slower than those using RAM and why the extra RAM to load and run FF?

I will experiment more today but I am very much considering dumping MSE.

Any comments/criticisms of my arithmetic (data are from Task Manager)?

Thanks...........
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