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    Synmantic Corporate Edition CPU usage 50-60% on avg

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by jibberjabbers, Oct 17, 2008.

  1. jibberjabbers

    jibberjabbers Notebook Geek

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    Is that bad? The beginning scans start out at 30-70% cpu usage. Then it slows down and take up less resource. According to Vista. It goes down to about 10-40% cpu usage.

    Whats everyone else averaging when doing a virus scan?

    1.83 core duo
    2gb ram
    win vista 32bit.
     
    jibberjabbers, Oct 17, 2008
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  2. RedBeardedDevil

    RedBeardedDevil Notebook Consultant

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    Symantec is a resource HOG. All the techs I know including myseld uninstall and delete all traces of it from our and our customer's systems unless they specifocally want it. AVG/AVG Free, Avast, etc. are much better choices that do not kill even the best made systems. I use AVG Free and have never had a virus shut down my systems.
     
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    entropy.cz Notebook Evangelist

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    system scan *can* eat quite a lot of resources, anyway, you can try to eliminate this.

    first, make sure that it is the only AV software on your computer (never ever use two or even more, because of possible conflicts). if there is another one installed, uninstall it first.

    and, it should also be possible to adjust the test a bit. with AVG mentioned by RedBeardedDevil, you can for example set the priority of the test (three stages from slow to fast, setting how much CPU it will use by this), maybe there is something like that in your Symantec as well..? (i'm not sure, i'm AVG user as well)
     
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  4. vinumsv

    vinumsv MobileFreak™

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    I have SEP 11.0.2010.25 and CPU usage averages around 0-10%
     
    vinumsv, Oct 18, 2008
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    I have symantec 10 on my laptop (32bit) and symantec endpoint on my desktop (64 bit) and they both seem minimal usage...

    Running a virus scan i see 4-25% cpu on my desktop right now and 20mb ram usage.
     
    nizzy1115, Oct 18, 2008
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    adyingwren Notebook Evangelist

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    It could be your laptop naturally underclocking when on battery thus making norton look like its using that much power.

    And btw, what version of norton corporate edition is it? Like what year is it? Version 2008 onwards are wayy better than what came before (and shall not be named)

    Hmm, when was the last time you used a symantec product? They rewrote the entire code for 2008 onwards. I'm using 2009 and it rarely goes beyond 20% when scanning and is now sitting on about 10MB of ram...
     
    adyingwren, Oct 20, 2008
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