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RAM usage isnt a problem per se, it is only a problem if the computer is low-end.

 

Its a problem for me lol.

 

Why? Do you have a computer with less than 4 GB of RAM?

 

No. No need for AV's to use an excessive amount of RAM.

 

Unused RAM is wasted RAM, an antivirus that uses little RAM is not necessarily faster than an antivirus that caches a lot of vital info and dont forget that many security solutions "fake" its RAM usage.

If your computer has 8 GB or more of RAM it is totally useless to ever think about RAM usage, except if you are using it for rendering, but it isnt an antivirus that will make a difference there.

Reference:
https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/22176/...ch-ram-and-why-that-is-actually-a-good-thing/
https://www.howtogeek.com/128130/ht...y RAM is useless.,rather than when it's empty.

 

I should have added to my post. If you are going to say unused RAM is wasted RAM, I am not even going to discuss this any further. There is zero reason for any av to use a massive amount of RAM, period.

Do you use an AV that uses a ton of RAM? I bet not.

 

F-Secure does and so does Bitdefender, both I use in different machines.

Did you read the links that I posted?

Anyway lets end here.

 

Great links, NW! Interesting.

 

https://privacytests.org/

 

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March 27, 2022

 

Thank you Captain Obvious, who would thought that the reason of this Emsisoft article (technically correct) was because of customers complaining about something that is not a problem at all?

Anyway I rest my case.

PS: My Windows is using more than 8 GB of RAM just for cache, my antivirus is using almost 500 MB of RAM and my computer is running blazing fast, like it is meant to be.

 

In all these years, I have NEVER ever looked at how much RAM my AV uses. I can feel my system if it's fast or not in file operations, copy/paste, opening programs, installing new programs, etc. This is not 2000 everyone has at least 16GB of RAM nowadays if not more

What matters the most is how the AV handles scanning and how it affects performance. WD for example doesn't use much RAM but it's the heaviest AV I've ever used.

 

Exactly, there are many antivirus solutions that consumes very little RAM but slowdown the system a lot.

F-Secure for example consumes a lot of RAM but has a tiny impact on system performance (my experience and professional testing).

 

That was my experience too. I've tried every AV literally and the only ones I'd use is:
1) Panda Free (I have a license for the paid version but I don't want the firewall)
2) F-Secure Antivirus (not the IS)
3) NOD32 (not the IS)

 

The ram usage argument is silly. I guess a lot of people don't care that each generation of PC they buy requires more and more ram. Personally, I don't want to have to buy more ram, just for a bloated AV to use.

 

Sure sure, you dont buy more RAM because of an antivirus, after all *you* can live without an antivirus in first place, you buy more RAM to run modern PC games, to do 3D rendering, to use virtual machines, to run several browser tabs and so on; said that, an antivirus memory usage is insignificant compared to those activities.

Anyway lets move on with this debate, if anyone thinks that RAM usage of Bitdefender or any other antivirus is too much, just use something else, no need to complain about a NONISSUE here.

 

What it's obvious is your manners.

 

I spoke too soon. Yesterday BD Free sent me a warning about a Facebook data leak that is over a month old. It had a link in the notification to "protect myself". I clicked the link and it took me to a BD page to buy Bitdefender Total Security. BD has great protection but I do not like the ambiguous upsell tactics. I removed BD and went back to WD with Configuredefender set on high. I added the WD Browser Protection and Malwarebytes Browser Guard extensions back to Chrome and will leave it like that. Edge only needed the MBAM Browser Guard reinstalled. WD may have its faults but it is the only "free" AV that truly stays out of the way and does not try to upsell anything.

Jimmy

 

And BD is a walk in the park compared to some of the other freebie AV's out there apparently bent on literally nagging you into submission.

 

There is never a free lunch. They will upsell and possibly sell your browser activity to firms for profit. Even paid versions upsell and some a lot. I always see the argument that WD is not free either (true) but I don't get hounded to add another feature that was not included with the free or paid versions.

 

Kaspersky Free employs exactly the same tactic,and while I don't have a problem with free products trying to upsell it's paid products,to do it using scare tactics and generating fear is wrong,just advertise your paid products normally,using underhand tactics results in loss of respect.

 

BD has been installed for two months now and never seen a upsell thing( when you switch off ads and promotional notifications)

 

This is good to hear. Hell some paid products try to upsell you.

 

Thanks Pat for pointing this out, I had the one setting turned off, it was for suggestions I believe. The other one was for notifications or something similar, I left that one on because I thought turning it off would stop BD from telling me if it had found a problem or needed an update or what ever else might come up. I will download BD again and turn both of those preference settings off and try BD again. I hope it works, because I really wanted to keep BD on my system.

Jimmy

 

Yes try with these 2 disabled