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Windows defender is by far the "best" malware software when it comes to having a light footprint. Scanning every byte of IO for malware signatures, and the ton
by StillBored 9y ago
Windows defender is by far the "best" malware software when it comes to having a light footprint. Scanning every byte of IO for malware signatures, and the ton of other heavyweight operations are a sure way to eat a ton of processing power. I have a under powered win10 tablet, and I have to remind myself to "disable" windows defender every time it goes to install an update. Otherwise what should be a 2-3 minute operation can run for 10-15 mins.
- SolarNet 9y agoYea I don't have a problem with it per se, I just wish it implemented any sort of improvement to reduce the hard-drive usage. Say, integrating with the OS to read the same memory as the program will (rather than reading it 2+ times: this kills the drive). Or perhaps storing a list - with hashes - of already scanned files, so it doesn't scan the entire 30+ GB windows dev kit every time I open a large project in visual studio (especially egregious because it forgets it already scanned it when I open a different IDE or say... compiler). The thing is out of control.
- thriftwy 9y ago"integrating with the OS to read the same memory as the program will (rather than reading it 2+ times: this kills the drive)." Is it even possible to read a file twice while ignoring system buffers cache?