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  • Re: ESET Home Cyber Secu

    From Rob Mccart@954:895/54 to MIKE DIPPEL on Sunday, October 25, 2026 06:12:00
    The program in question called ESET Home Cyber Security.
    >-> I've seen it highly recommended. I'm surprised it used so
    >-> many resources. I use Malwarebytes paid version and it behaves
    >-> quite well, but I've got an 11th gen i9 and 64GB of RAM....

    Take this with a grain of salt.. I use them on older systems because
    I have never had an virus issues while running them and they use
    almost no resources and they should probably be considered added
    protection rather than the Only protection needed, but I've used
    both of these for many years..

    WinPatrol and Spyware Blaster. I use the free versions but possibly
    both have a paid version that does more.

    What they do is, Winpatrol just watches all system files and will
    warn you if something is trying to alter any system files, say to
    automatically load a virus on reboot or disable other protection
    or something..

    Spyware Blaster modifies parts of the registry where it is
    known viruses will install changes and blocks that somehow..

    You can look into these. Maybe they are too light duty these
    days but.. 41 years on computers and I've had one virus once
    in all that time so the things I've used seem to be working.

    But, admittedly, I am behind times and I mostly use a Windows 7
    Laptop for most online work (not a likely target for virus people)
    but I run Only Windows Firewall, the basic Defender updates still
    being offered and those 2 protective programs above..

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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Rob Mccart on Sunday, October 25, 2026 16:10:46
    On 10/25/2026 7:12 AM, Rob Mccart wrote to Mike Dippel:

    The program in question called ESET Home Cyber Security.
    >-> I've seen it highly recommended. I'm surprised it used so
    >-> many resources. I use Malwarebytes paid version and it behaves
    >-> quite well, but I've got an 11th gen i9 and 64GB of RAM....

    Take this with a grain of salt.. I use them on older systems because
    I have never had an virus issues while running them and they use
    almost no resources and they should probably be considered added
    protection rather than the Only protection needed, but I've used
    both of these for many years..

    Glad you have had a great experience with Eset. I guess it is possible that it wasn't that
    program that caused the high resource usage, but things changed for the better once I
    uninstalled it and rebooted.

    Glad we can share this info. It is useful for others when we share our experiences.

    Mike Dippel

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