Symantec antivirus eats up too much memory?

[sunflower2772]

So I am gonna install a Labview program thats logs data and send the data by email, on a ship using satelite internet. If the sat internet fails, the emails will be store in the 2G memory of the PC.

So the customer IT guy ask will Symantec antivirus (which requires 2G memory according to him) eats up Labview memory, and cause Labview program to crash a few weeks later? 

Have you guys have any bad experience with Symantec antivirus crashing Labview? Or Symantec's firewall blocking Labview email transmission and stuff like that?

Thanks. 

[Coq_Rouge]

What does the customer IT guy realy mean then he says a virus scanner needs 2 G memory?   

[smercurio_fc]

You are confusing RAM with hard disk space. You would not store emails in the 2GB of "memory" of the PC. You would store the emails on the hard drive. It makes no sense to store in them in RAM, as that's temporary storage, and you'd lose it if the computer gets turned off or it reboots. 

As for the Symantec issue, Symantec has its share of problems, just like every other atrocity that we otherwise affectionately know as anti-virus programs.  Symantec anti-virus, however, does not require 2GB of memory. Your IT guy, I suspect, probably despises Symantec products. As far as how much memory it actually requires, that completely depends on the version that you're looking at (including whether it's a "home" version, or a "business" version, or whether it's the standalone antivirus program, or whether it's the one that's included in the full-blown security suite). 

[Ben · Accepted solution]

If Symantec antivirus actully used 2G of RAM, then that would prevent virisues since 2G is all of the address space available under Windows with using special switches.

So the 2G number has to mean disk space.

Make sure you are logged in as a privlged user and watch for the  pop-ups about firewall blocking and allow them.

If you miss them you can go back through the system log and find the issue and then manually configure your firewall.

Ben

[Cory_K]

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Ben wrote:

If Symantec antivirus actully used 2G of RAM, then that would prevent virisues since 2G is all of the address space available under Windows with using special switches.

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Problem solved