Spysweeper uses lots of memory

Another SpySweeper question:

I am using the trial version of Spysweeper, and have notcied it uses a lot of memory - anything between 30MB- 50MB when minimised to tray icon with only the following shields active:

IE Favorites Shield
IE Home Page Shield
IE Search Page Shield
IE Hijack Shield
Hosts File Shield
Spy Installation Shield
Startup Shield

I am interested in possibly buying a licence for SS, but this seems memory usage seems excessive to me.

I was wondering if this kind of memory usage is normal for SS ?

 

unfortunatly it is normal.
Maybe you should wait for Ms Anti-Spyware to become full.
since this will be a free tool. I would recommend waiting, for the money factor and also it is a better tool, that picks up more and uses ALOT less memory.

 

True the memory usage is pretty much thats why i run that on demand. Apart from that one of the best AS in the market these days

 

Spanner intheWorks, thats true, however then Defenestration will have THREE programs running eating just as much or even more memory that the one.

 

30-50mb, wow thats a lot, mine starts in the 40's, but settles around 22-25mb, just like MS-Anti btw.

 

MJ Registry Watcher typically peaks at between 7 and 8 MBytes of memory when running. When minimised, it uses about 1.5 to 2 MBytes of memory, and its peak thread count is 4. It also allows you protect everything all these products do, and more besides - you can define your own keys, values, directories and files to watch. It is available at http://www.jacobsm.com/index.htm#sft and is totally free, since Windows needs tightening up.

 

Have you thought about more memory? 1 Gig of memory sells for about $130 on a good sale day at newegg.com ...... Judging the quality of a product on the fact it uses 50MB of ram is hardly a disqualifier on today's home computers. I suppose it's all relative as I have 2 Gig of ram and 50MB doesn't touch me. If you're still squeaking by on 256 or 512MB and still wanting to run a lot of security products, I suppose the 50MB used by SS could hurt you. Memory is always your best upgrade - and the cheapest.

 

Another alternative would be System Safety Monitor which includes registry monitoring, process monitoring and can intercept service/driver installs and physical memory access (dealing with the worst malware).

However using a good web filter to block ActiveX/Java/Javascript (and only allowing these for sites you trust) should stop any webpage from installing malware in the first place, removing the need for a specialised scanner. You then just need to worry about email attachments and file downloads (which can be dealt with using anti-virus/anti-trojan scanners).

 

By the way,

Does anyone know of a Process Monitor Pgm that will run on Win 98 and show me the amount of memory being used by each running process on my Win98 PC? I tried sysinternals process explorer, but it does *not* show memory used on a per running process basis.

 

Try Windows Process Watcher from Microsoft's Windows 95 Kernel Toys - it does work with Windows 98 and IIRC displays CPU and memory utilisation per process.

 

Paranoid2000,

Thanks for the info.
I just also remembered the name of product that I was trying to recall (but had never tried), it is called "TaskInfo" and I found the site for it (see below). Based on the screenshots it looks like it can give loads of details of information for each running process including memory usage even on Win 98 PC's. I am going to download and try it. It has a 30 day evaulation usage before purchase. It works on all of the following Win 95, Win 98, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 and has been recently updated to support new features for XP and 2003.

I would also be intertested in knowing what others think about this product too.

TaskInfo 6.0.1.134
http://www.iarsn.com/taskinfo.html

 

TaskInfo is good, but it is a little pricey in my view given that the likes of Process Explorer are free.

 

Paranoid2000,

I tried Process Explorer, but can't find a column that would display memory used by each process, at least when running it under Win 98.

 

Have you checked out Faber Toys at http://www.faberbox.com/fabertoys.asp?

 

You need to add the memory consumption details using View/Columns/Process Performance and checking the Working Set Size box.