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Re:Symantec: it’s dangerous to rely on free antivirus by mahmud on Sunday July 05, 2009 @12:22PM (#688368)
It uses 6 megabytes of memory

1) That's just the loader; it forks other crap.

2) I wouldn't be surprised if Symantec was hooking the OS API to report smaller footprint or gaming the profiling infrastructure in another way. Crap like that has been going on since the 80s.

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Re:Symantec: it’s dangerous to rely on free antivirus by wyday on Sunday July 05, 2009 @12:40PM (#688387)
You're right, it forks a couple more processes. It comes to a total of 8 megs, not 6. I should've checked that the first time.

Still pretty tiny.

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