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<blockquote data-quote="Dex4Sure" data-source="post: 930254" data-attributes="member: 79841">Somehow I highly doubt that...I&#039;m not the only one here whose saying Emsisoft uses a lot of resources. The reason I ever even bothered to try Emsisoft again was thinking maybe they had managed to trim down the resource usage from last time I tried them, but apparently not. I&#039;ve got ESET running now and it&#039;s using less than 100MB of RAM despite I actually have more background apps open atm. Even during system scan it stayed around 200MB. Windows Defender consistently used around 200MB for me as well. I&#039;ve bashed Bitdefender engine for long time and its for a good reason. I&#039;ve seen other users report 600MB RAM usage with Bitdefender not too long ago as well... It is very well possible that Emsisoft RAM usage would drop eventually after the BB has evaluated certain apps it was monitoring to be safe. CPU usage spiked up considerably (40%+) anytime I opened an app or larger excel file for instance, while ESET used just about 15% of the CPU under similar conditions. The point is it never should use that much resources. I have seen similar behavior from other AVs as well, Kaspersky also used about 30% of the CPU under similar conditions, just not not so much RAM... Maybe little over 300MB at worst. I monitor resource usage very carefully whenever I check out an AV as I believe that is one of the most important factors at the end. There are so many other tests you can check out if you want to get an idea how these products perform protection wise.[ATTACH=full]254107[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dex4Sure, post: 930254, member: 79841"] Somehow I highly doubt that... I'm not the only one here whose saying Emsisoft uses a lot of resources. The reason I ever even bothered to try Emsisoft again was thinking maybe they had managed to trim down the resource usage from last time I tried them, but apparently not. I've got ESET running now and it's using less than 100MB of RAM despite I actually have more background apps open atm. Even during system scan it stayed around 200MB. Windows Defender consistently used around 200MB for me as well. I've bashed Bitdefender engine for long time and its for a good reason. I've seen other users report 600MB RAM usage with Bitdefender not too long ago as well... It is very well possible that Emsisoft RAM usage would drop eventually after the BB has evaluated certain apps it was monitoring to be safe. CPU usage spiked up considerably (40%+) anytime I opened an app or larger excel file for instance, while ESET used just about 15% of the CPU under similar conditions. The point is it never should use that much resources. I have seen similar behavior from other AVs as well, Kaspersky also used about 30% of the CPU under similar conditions, just not not so much RAM... Maybe little over 300MB at worst. I monitor resource usage very carefully whenever I check out an AV as I believe that is one of the most important factors at the end. There are so many other tests you can check out if you want to get an idea how these products perform protection wise.[ATTACH type="full"]254107[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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