Virus on ram memory

Everything is really slow at boot. What's the issue here? Thank you for your help! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 7. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Igor Leyko Independent Advisor. On some workstations i use free AVses, where is low security risk. Few month ago i was very delighted with free version of KAV, and now that issues :.

I can confirm, I have been having this problem for last few months now. Most antivirus are like that. Try using them for days without restart usually I just hibernate my computer for faster startup , they will consume hundreds MB of your RAM. But be aware if you finding low mem consuption, you must find alternative which have good virus checking test ;-. Do they even have a paid review program? No affiliate links too. I can bet you if the list is some other antivirus, there will someone just like you complain about it.

I have Eset for our two PC home network. Looking in Task Master with my PC at idle and no apps open. Eset is using 71MB of memory. Definitely a Hog! To be honest, a good antivirus loads its fingerprint database in memory to be able to scan faster. Memory usage for me is less important than detecting a virus before it can do any harm.

In fact, if AV programs store their database in swap, it will slow down your PC overall, and it would allow a virus to do harm before it would be detected. And it does! Third, I've seen no studies that say memory-only malware is harder to detect or has incurred increased false negatives. This is what most people are worried about; I haven't seen any real evidence yet.

Lastly, although BlackPOS has been around for only a few years, we've had memory-only malware for a long time. The SQL Slammer worm of , for example, was memory-only. To this day, SQL Slammer still holds the title of the fastest-spreading worm. It exploited nearly every unpatched SQL server on the Internet in about 10 minutes. But as bad as it was, I loved the cleanup: You patched the server and rebooted.

Bad thing gone forever. Oh yeah, it's readily detected by every antivirus program in the world. So, no, I'm not afraid of memory-only malware. On the contrary, I'm crossing my fingers and hoping all malware becomes memory-only. This led to the development of the Arc protein, as it operates in our neurochemistry today. According to a recent University of Massachusetts study, the same process developed in fruit fries, independently, sometime later, around million years ago.

Shepherd and colleagues found that Arc acts like a viral capsid. A virus uses the capsid to spread its genetic material from one cell to another, causing an infection. How Arc mimics this is, it encapsulates its RNA in order to transfer it from one neuron to another. Elissa Pastuzyn, Ph. The study is changing how we view the evolutionary process.

Rather than random mutations, it suggests that organisms may borrow from one another in order to develop. To test the theory, Shepherd and colleagues devised a number of experiments to see whether or not Arc operates like a virus.