About McAfee 7.0 memory consumption!

Hi everyone. Does someone know if here are the all needed components to count the memory consumption of McAfee VirusScan 7.0 Professional without a Firewall?

Avconsol.exe 464 kb
Avsyncmgr.exe 544 kb
Mcshield.exe 5 004 kb
nvsc32.exe 188 kb   
RuLaunch.exe 172 kb
Vschwin32.exe 700 kb
VSStat.exe 1 688 kb
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Total 8 760 kb

If that's all, what happened to the resource hog McAfee Engine? My Engine is now 4.2.40, but it was a couple of months ago 4.1.60. Is that the cause to so low memory consumption? If so, the "old timer" gets a good step forward. When I counted RAV 8.6 104 memory consumption now, it was:

ravtray8.exe 5 828 kb
ravmon.exe 7 820 kb (counted before McAfee)
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Total 13 648 kb

An other problem is still left with McAfee 7.0 Pro. I can't count more files from my PC than some 48 000, even DrWeb 4.29b is capable to count over 100 000. That 48 000 is less than NOD32 is capable to scan with best possible settings (over 60 000)!

When McAfee is the second best unpacker engine, is it so that despite of that it is very poor archives
scanner?

PS. My system is WinXP Home Finnish language version.

"The truth is out there, but it hurts!"

Best regards,
Firefighter!

 

Hi Firefighter,

What method did you use to extract the numbers you´re adding up?
And if you used Windows Taskmanager, which column(s)?

Regards,

Pieter

 

To Pieter_Arntz from Firefighter!

If you mean those files what an av is capable to scan, I read simply the Report Panel summary report of every av-program's scans! It's my own KISS method (Keep It Simply Stupid)!

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Hi Firefighter,

I meant the numbers quoted above.

Regards,

Pieter

 

To Pieter_Arntz from Firefighter!

Because I have always used Finnish version of WinXP Home, it is better to tell which keys do I use.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete and then I choose processes.

After all this you can see the memory consumption in [kb]!

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Hi Firefighter,

Have a look at my screenshot.
The first column is the one you probably used. The second column is the peek memory usage by that same application. As you can see there can be some significant differences.
I´m not saying this is the case here, but maybe you should check, as you do like to take all the variables into consideration.

Regards,

Pieter

 

You may have to choose the peak memory useage column as my xp didnt show it as default, I simply added it via View-Select Columns.

 

To Pieter_Arntz and Tinribs from Firefighter!

Now I got it. But there was very large delta (chance) in those programs.

My main question was only that, if the new McAfee scanning engine 4.2.40 runs remarkable lower memory consumption as the older 4.1.60 one?

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

FF;

I heard good things about McAfee's new engine. Myself, I never had any problems with McAfee VS!



Technodrome

 

As Tech said.
Engine 4240 is a great improvement over 4160.
Especially on Win Me boxes.
Scanning speed is also improved among other things.
Regards Ole

 

To Technodrome and you others from Firefighter!

Is here someone who can tell me why McAfee is so poor to detecting files?

Is the archives scanning capability still below the average? Have I done something wrong whith the definitions?

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Depend on your configurations, do you have McAfee set to scan every file? In the Advanced settings select All files instead of Default files, Enable heuristics scanning = macro and program files.

Additional criteria for scanning select all three boxes.

 

You mean viruses? Poor? I don't think so.

Could be settings. Mcafee comes close to KAV.


Technodrome

 

To Technodrome from Firefighter!

I mean that the total number of scanned files (= 48 172, and boot sectors = 1) was below even that what NOD32 could scan.

My scanning settings were,

scan boot sectors
compressed files
all files

and in the advanced section,

enable heuristics scanning
enable macro and program file heuristics scanning
scan for potentially dangerous programs
scan viruses in MIME/UUEncoded files
Scan OLE objects

Have I to give up this issue?

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Total number of scanned files, Doesn't mean anything, each AVP counts them different, for example one AVP may count a packed or compressed file as one file, another AVP may count every file in the compressed file, while Another AVP counts,may only count part of the compressed file.

Counting and detecting or two different things, McAfee will find the Trojan, Virus or Mailware, if you have one.

 

To Vampirefo from Firefighter!

I think it is something like that. For example DrWeb and Kaspersky are counting the scanned files according to somewhat the same rules. That's all the files inside those opened archives.

RAV is counting more files that there actually are inside those opened archives, some kind of subfiles inside certain filetypes.

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Am I messing something here or what? My McAfee 7.0 only loads Avconsol.exe, McShield.exe, Vshwin32.exe, VSStat.exe, Avsynmgr.exe and VsMain that's it. Plus there is 33 unscannable files. Anyone know the cause for 33 files not being able to be scanned?

 

To Notageek from Firefighter!

How did you come to that kind of result of those unscanned files? I'm just a bit of curious?

PS. Sorry, nvsvc32.exe is NVIDIA's file.

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Hi Firefighter, Just open McAfee and click on advance, after that click "veiw VirusScan's activity log. Than click scan summary. All the way at the bottom is unscannable files. I have 33 for some odd reason.

 

To Notageek from Firefighter!

Thanks very much! I'm not very experienced to this McAfee, but now I got it.

The total number of my PC's unscanned files with McAfee 7.0 were 845.

Best Regards,
Firefighter!

 

Maybe someone can tel us why there is unscanned files when you scan with McAfee.