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Old 03-07-2010, 07:12 AM   #61
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Originally Posted by psicodude View Post
The reason I was asking is that I am the technical lead on a project that requires us to deploy 300+ laptops in a school environment.
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So, to make a long story short, I really just wanted to know if the resources used by the free solutions were similar to what the big boys are.
A lot of the free products, like Avast and Dr Web do not allow use in settings you are describing, but there are some that do. I think MS Security Essentials is one of these.

I use Security Essentials at home, and I just tested a full scan amd it seems to take about 200 Megs of RAM, even though it came up as an Internet Explorer process (iexplore.exe). I am actually not very happy with those numbers, especially on my wife's machine which only has a Gig of RAM. Passively it takes up 2 mb

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Avast is taking up 40MB of memory
Is that while scanning? or while in passive mode?
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