Re: How much memory does Norton AntiVirus eat up?
From: Lindsay (lindsay_at_home.com)
Date: 05/29/04
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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:55:44 +0100
Hello, Unknown!
I think it's a perfectly valid response. If your concerned with memory, then
get rid of NIS2003. I have never had NAV and I don't get viruses. Why run
unnesseccary programs? My pc is stacks faster without programs like that
consuming all the resources!
You wrote on Sat, 29 May 2004 15:55:48 GMT:
U> Why do you waste your time with all that garbage? Run without it and see
U> how error free your system can run.
U> "*Vanguard*" <no-email@reply-to-newsgroup.invalid> wrote in message
U> news:ubN02PZREHA.1348@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
??>> For users of Norton AntiVirus *but* which have NO other Symantec
??>> products installed, how much memory is consumed by all processes
??>> associated with Norton AntiVirus?
??>>
??>> I have Norton Internet Security 2003 which includes an integrated
??>> Norton AntiVirus 2003. Together their memory footprint is 134MB.
??>> Uffda, what a pig! After struggling with their firewall for a couple
??>> years on several machines, wasting lots of time with their tech
??>> support, and having to reinstall numerous times, I'm dumping their
??>> firewall. However, I still like their anti-virus product. However,
??>> after trying to install it separately, and after talking to Symantec,
??>> I find that Norton Antivirus cannot be installed alone. For NIS2003,
??>> you can install just NIS2003 or NIS2003 + NAV2003, but you cannot
??>> install just NAV2003. As a result, I am evaluating what other
??>> anti-virus software I may use. I'm not really interested in users'
??>> opinions as to what they think works best because no user gets full
??>> exposure to all in the wild viruses. After reading several
??>> independent lab tests on many anti-virus products, the only ones that
??>> get high ratings (over 98%) are those that use the KAV engine, which
??>> is Kaspersky (and, I think, NOD32).
??>>
??>> In any case, if and only if I decide to continue with Norton
??>> AntiVirus, I'd like to know what just what is its memory footprint. I
??>> can't install it separately from Norton Internet Security. If you
??>> have more than one Symantec product installed, they share some
??>> processes and add others so it would be difficult to isolate just the
??>> memory usage for Norton AntiVirus alone. The auto-protect service
??>> (navapsvc.exe) is small at just 996 KB. If NAV uses the ccApp.exe
??>> (Common Client Application) process, that increases the footprint.
??>> The other processes I remember were ccEvtMgr (Symantec's Event
??>> Manager) and ccPxySvc (their transparent proxy). If ccPxySvc is NOT
??>> used for NAV then the memory footprint for NAV would go way down. All
??>> the NIS + NAV processes ate up 134 MB of which somewhere around 115 MB
??>> of that was just for the ccPxySvc service. It NAV does not use that
??>> piggish proxy process then maybe it would only consume 19 MB.
??>> However, although NAV might not need the transparent proxy for web
??>> browsing (since they install a browser helper object to IE), they
??>> might still need it to handle e-mail data streams. ccPxySvc was the
??>> pig so if it isn't used for NAV alone then the memory requirement goes
??>> way down.
??>>
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With best regards, Lindsay. E-mail: lindsay@home.com
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