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Mr. Langa, I am surprised at you…..a man of your experience……….over the years we have tried all the AV’s that you “tested” with the exception of the ClamWin and we now use Avira mostly due to its very pro-active real time protection. When we saw the immense amount of memory usage you posted for it when compared with the other programs we wondered why such a disparity with Avira and Comodo versus the others until we realized that we were quite famiiar with that amount of memory usage by Avira when it is ACTIVELY SCANNING, certainly not when at idle with or without real time engaged (on our fastest pc, about 136mb scanning, and about 33mb at start up, dropping to about 15.5mb at idle) Updating, either automatic or manual obviously increase resource usage as well and will drop back down after.
As well we wondered about Comodo (a fine program as well), so we actually took the trouble and loaded it on a pc and checked it and guess what? We got similiar memory usage to your chart when it was ACTIVELY SCANNING with a similiarly corresponding drop similar to the Avira as we expected when it was at idle. So we have to ask, what were you thinking?? You must be aware that these types of security programs usually update and scan automatically by default unless you change this behavior in options. Maybe you were trying to do too much at once to notice. Didn’t you think it was strange? If you were going to truly test memory footprint head to head you should probably have set the program options to be as alike as possiible. In any event, on our slowest pc’s we get boots of about 30 to 45 seconds and about 20 seconds on our multi-cores with Avira so we cannot speak to the inordinately long count you received. Maybe you have a lazy raid card or something, but for the reasons here in described, we have decided you must rush to the health food store and buy a small barrel of gingko biloba as soon as possible………then re-run the test………..other than that, we think you’re a great guy and a role model to us all, seriously.