NOD32 and Outpost

[dirtwarrior]

I installed NOD32 as my virus protection and Outpost as firewall. Both together eats about 50 mb of ram . I didnt change any settings, but can I configure them a different way and still get protection but not use so much ram?

Edited May 7, 2006 by dirtwarrior

[Zxian]

A ) How much RAM do you have?

B ) Have you tried disabling the plugins in Outpost? The only ones that I've got running are Attack Detection, Anti-Spyware, and DNS Cache.

When it comes to RAM usage... it's not necessarily a bad thing for a program to use a bit of free memory. If your computer always has 500 MB of free RAM (or something of the sort), then you probably don't need to worry. What's the point in having all this hardware if you're not going to use it? It's like buying a Ferrari just to go and buy milk every now and then.

To give you a reference point - I've got 1GB of RAM. NOD32 typically sits around 20MB for me (goes up to 25-28 when scanning a large file, sometimes down to 15), and Outpost varies between 10 and 30. I'd say that these are completely acceptable values for a (near) total security package.

P.S. When I say near - the only part left is you.

[dirtwarrior]

Thanks OK the plugins can you tell me where they are so I can disable them.

[Zxian]

Have you tried looking in the Outpost window?

Options->Plug-ins Setup

That wasn't that hard now, was it?

[dirtwarrior]

[Jeremy]

Yeah Kaspersky and NOD32 seem to take up relatively lower amounts of memory compared to other products. I'm very happy with my programs and I'm glad you guys are too.