Avast and Immunet: LOWER RAM usage??

[jjb2012]

Immunet is supposed to be a "companion AV" to run with your primary AV (I use AIS 6).

Here's the thing: after installing Immunet my post-startup RAM ("resting RAM") is LOWER than with just Avast alone. And when I run tests, Immunet always reacts before Avast.

That led me to wonder whether Immunet was shutting down some Avast processes? Would that explain the decrease in RAM? Sure is weird.

[DBone]

avast! 6 is plenty stout enough on its own. I am not a big fan of Immunet, or any other "companion AV". My take? If your AV needs a companion to work, then you need a new AV.

[jjb2012]

Here's the problem: NONE of the AVs does well on zero-day attacks. Avast has improved and is at about 50% detection but what of the other 50%? I'm on a college campus and it is an extreme vector for malware.

av-comparatives has never shown an AV getting better than 70% on zero-day tests (working from memory here).

[YoKenny]

Then get Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) as it is a good addition for malware prevention.
Its one time fee is well worth the additional protection it provides.

[Lisandro]

The later installed software could be at the bottom most of the processing, i.e., reacts before.
Is avastUI.exe and avastSvc.exe running?