Did someone else noticed the high MS Defender CPU load when real time protection is enabled? I haven’t notice that in any other plane. Between 30-40%.
P.S. I know that AV is snake oil, but why it happen only to PA28.
Thanks.
AV is snake oil?
Yes, Antivirus is snake oil. Usually I don’t use it. I had enabled RTP by accident. So I noticed the high CPU load of the defender when I am using the PA28.
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We get dozens of hits every single day at work from infected sites, infected mail attachments etc. McAfee, and Sophos before it, protect our estate from all sorts of threats.
You don’t know what you are talking about, and with any luck you aren’t working for any IT department.
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I have asked if someone else noticed the high CPU load and not about McAfee and Sophos 
OT: I am certified CISSP and CCIE and I am working since 20 years for a big company in the IT area. Please, do not try to explain me security. You should block on your FW i.e Palo Alto (deep inspection, etc.) shady sites and create awareness to do not click on everything. Last but not least: Security (Security wheel) is a concept not a single piece of software.
Thanks.
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I work for a software company, and though we recently had an offsite company start doing remote IT for us who employs antivirus (they required it), for 20 years we firmly did not use it, and for 20 years we recommended our users get rid of anything other than Microsoft defender. We’ve never had a single incident, nor have our thousands of customers. I’ll admit, prior to Defender, Microsoft wasn’t the greatest at security, but common sense prevents 99.99% of viruses and the rest can usually be caught quickly. In those early days we would have people run Malwarebytes (before it got bought out). Most AV is snake oil and plenty of them behave like malware themselves.
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The only thing I can think is that the PA28 may use some kind of WASM that the antivirus is spooked by. RTP might be constantly monitoring some communication between the addon and the sim. Curious if others have experienced the same thing.
Can’t you just set it not to worry about files in the flightsim directories?
That makes sense. Defender is actually pretty good, though it still doesn’t compare with the central reporting capabilites like McAfee has. But as AV itself goes it’s solid.
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Good point that it may be a some kind of WASM. Intersting that no one else noticed the same. Maybe the majority is not checking the processes in the task manger. Anyway, for sure it’s not a virus, but sparks my curiosity.
I don’t use AV. In the meantime, I have enabled and disabled AV, RTP many times. I can reproduce it. Anyway, it’s not an issue. It consumes CPU if you have RTP enabled.
P.S. The PA28 is a wonderful plane. I love it.
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av is not snake oil at all for some systems, that in not safe zones, and under attack. but for usual user it’s not snake oil it’s snake ■■■■. and instead of trouble do nothing
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