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Originally Posted by Rathji
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
Is that while scanning? or while in passive mode?
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Yeah, you're right, deploying in a school or corporate environement will be violating the terms of the free agreements for the home versions of Avast and Dr. Web.
Avast is eating up between 30-40MB of memory when idling in my task bar but it is working hard at intercepting stuff before it gets to me. It's been catching malicious code on regular webpages that were seemingly innocuous to me.