ratchet Posted October 31, 2006 CID Share Posted October 31, 2006 So, for no particular reason, other than I hadn't scanned with it for a couple of weeks, during breakfast this morning I run the complete scan. As is always the case with my apps, I was perfectly clean! Well ever since I had some issues recently with RAM usage, I've been monitoring my process memory usage. On average, with AVG Ant-Spyware 7.5, Comodo Firewall, NOD32, PopTray, Spy Sweeper, WeatherPulse and Windows Defender all monitoring or enabled, my RAM usage averages around 50% of 1G RAM. I noticed after that scan that it dropped to around 30%. It stayed there until I shutdown (about 1hr). So when I got home from work today, I anxiously booted and usage was pretty much normal again. So about 5:00PM I scanned again and it is after 9:00PM now and usage is still around 30%. My wife was copying numerous recipes and I installed Media 11 and upgraded ie Spell (trust me I'm a Ff guy!) so it's not like my pc has been just idling away here! So what is AVG doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted October 31, 2006 CID Share Posted October 31, 2006 My first thought was it was killing a spyware type program from running but you said its finding nothing? Thats a pretty nice improvment. I would run it twice a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted October 31, 2006 CID Share Posted October 31, 2006 it is using the downtime to do a real time scan my guess would be.. you can disable it in the control panel of AVG.. however, I would leave it on because it prevents a lot of the zero day attacks if you are not on your computer but your computer is on.. assuming that updates are run.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparticus Posted October 31, 2006 CID Share Posted October 31, 2006 Avg recently did that to me i left it alone for about a week and it stopped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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