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So we have McAfee AntiVirus Enterprise 8.5 managed by EPO on our network. It's really a great product. The only thing that seems to present a problem is that the Virus Scan Task Manager (VsTskMgr.exe) seems to constantly hover between using 5% and 17% of the CPU and can use upwards to 250MB of RAM. The On-Acess Scanner (McShield.exe) varies widely but can spike using the CPU and RAM as well. The On-Access Scanner acts somewhat like I would expect it to, however it does seem abnormaly CPU intensive at times. However, the Task Manager seems unordinarily active using CPU constantly. Does anyone else have the same problems and does anyone have any advice on tweaking anything to make these processes behave in what I believe should be a more stable manner?
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So we have McAfee AntiVirus Enterprise 8.5 managed by EPO on our network. It's really a great product. The only thing that seems to present a problem is that the Virus Scan Task Manager (VsTskMgr.exe) seems to constantly hover between using 5% and 17% of the CPU and can use upwards to 250MB of RAM. The On-Acess Scanner (McShield.exe) varies widely but can spike using the CPU and RAM as well. The On-Access Scanner acts somewhat like I would expect it to, however it does seem abnormaly CPU intensive at times. However, the Task Manager seems unordinarily active using CPU constantly. Does anyone else have the same problems and does anyone have any advice on tweaking anything to make these processes behave in what I believe should be a more stable manner?

Processes using high amounts of CPU and RAM

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.