I am well aware of how important anti-malware services are, and I can accept they take a lot of resources when they have to get down and dirty, but mine seems to run over 1/4th my CPU power for hours non stop while perpetually writing to my HD and potentially downloading GB of data and has been for like 10 hours through two restarts now. Is this normal, or do I have something setup wrong somewhere or something? I guess I just reinstalled Windows, so is it maybe getting itself fully up to date with the latest security packages in the background or something? Are there really like 10+ GB of security updates from this service alone?


- Windows Build/Version
- Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.863)
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell / Inspiron 7440 14 2-in-1
- CPU
- System > About won't say...
- Keyboard
- built in
- Mouse
- built in trackpad