Fully disabled Defender but Windows Defender Antivirus Service runs . . . Fully disabled Defender but "Windows Defender Antivirus Service" runs I used the steps from here and elsewhere, to FULLY disable Windows Defender, well over a year ago Mark my surprise, when I find that the "Antimalware Service executable" is eating up 25% of the processor power
W10 - Antimalware Service Executable - Windows 10 Forums W10 - Antimalware Service Executable Starting to lose my mind here I have a completely fresh install of W10 Pro (Ver 1909) on a modern PC, and since day one I've been having almost daily issue with the "Antimalware Service Executable" process locking up my computer for 5-10 minutes when it comes out of sleep Things I've done to try and fix this
Solved - Antimalware service executable | Windows 8 Help Forums there is this one annoying service "Antimalware service executable" ; always running in the background ; always eating memory and disc I use VMware these days for my work; I previously had 6gb ram (4+2); the 2gb ram blew up; leaving me with only 4 GB's of memory everytime I open the task
Antimalware Service Executable using more memory than usual Antimalware Service Executable using more memory than usual For the past week or so, I have noticed the Antimalware Service Executable (Windows Defender) sitting there using much more memory than it used to, sometimes more than 300 megabytes
What file is triggering the antimalware service executable to start . . . What file is triggering the antimalware service executable to start? The antimalware service executable is hogging up system resources on my work computer such that I can't get my work done I T refuses to disable Windows Defender and install something better, so I'm stuck trying to figure out how to prevent these scans from triggering
Windows Antimalware Service Executable slowing down Firefox Windows Antimalware Service Executable slowing down Firefox I seem to have an issue with the afore mentioned task Whenever I start Firefox the task goes crazy, using about 30% of my CPU for several minutes This is significantly more than other browsers
Very sluggish Dell laptop - even when totally idle See if this helps: Antimalware Service Executable taking up high CPU for several hours! Something is definitely not right with Antimalware being so high for so long, unless it's just slow because of the HDD
Windows 10 Prod Admin and Antimalware Service Executable MsMpEng. exe . . . Windows 10 Prod Admin and Antimalware Service Executable MsMpEng exe My user ID is part of the Admin group but I cannot change anything for the MsMpEng exe process which just takes over my PC's performance (CPU and Memory) when I fire it up