About a suite thing I think the only who can compete with Kaspersky is indeed Norton, since it has a lot of features like backup, VPN, password manager, granular settings, better firewall/network protection, etc.
Hard to say on this PC as it's a new build but on my last one Norton seemed very low on resources, but as others will say too give it a try on your system before you buy anything as each PC is almost unique with hardware/software combination - Worth it in Norton setting to set SONAR to aggressive when you are familiar with it - I have for some time with no issues...
Half a gigabyte of ram is not light on resources.
This is not the experience for everybody. I’ve never seen it go over 300MB while scanning and averages 150MB. So it may be worth trying for someone else to see if they have your issue. Also a lot of people run 16GB systems and have plenty of ram even if that is the case for them.
Try process hacker or process explorer and youll see different, more accurate, results-
I don’t have any ram constraints, so it is not a concern. Also, signatures in ram are faster.
This is the typical comment I have been hearing for the past 5 centuries. Many members said that the product is light. I myself used it for months and have not experienced any performance impact whatsoever. Many member also said, and it is confirmed, that high ram usage does not mean the product is heavy.
Ive personally seen the heaviest products to be the most resource intensive ones, like bitdefender and malwarebytes.
I get that. I’ve seen some of the best losing times and benchmarks in games on BD. But, I will agree I had a similar experience with Malwarebytes.
I'm sorry but I don't understand?You don't have data protector?
I would caution on using memory usage as the only indicator of system impact. I find people put too much emphasis on memory usage and ignore everything else.
I have noticed a pattern actually, take firefox, it uses a lot more memory than chrome and is slower, the same goes for malwarebytes and bitdefender, they are a lot heavier than windows defender, kaspersky, eset, etc, and they use less memory.I would caution on using memory usage as the only indicator of system impact. I find people put too much emphasis on memory usage and ignore everything else.
In all honesty 500mb really isn't that much for most modern computers. Most computers sold within the last few years and going forward are coming with atleast 8gb standard, with many coming with even more.
Not saying to ignore it completely, because computers with 2 to 4gb of ram, it will be more of an issue for sure. However, cpu and hard disk usage will have far bigger impacts on system performance than memory usage in most cases.
As a comparison, most modern web browsers use 1gb easy, and can use even more depending on how many tabs and extensions you are running. Yet, people look at Chrome and Edge and say they are light and fast, despite their tendency to use a lot of ram (depending on how one is browsing).
