Memory leak

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Herb Kornfeld

I have xp home edition. I also have 756 Mb of ram.
Everytime I try to run the antispyware tool on my entire c
drive I eventually get a message telling me that memory is
running out. Is this a memory leak in the antispyware
tool?
 
Were you running a Microsoft AntiSpyware scan with multiple applications
open? You get that message when you do so.

From Allan:
First off, a true memory leak has nothing to due with the
amount of memory a program uses! A memory leak occurs
when a program has finished using a certain portion of
the memory that has been allocated to complete a task and
the program DOES NOT release that portion, causing more
and more memory to be used up, until the program
crashes. Just because the virtual memory takes a huge
hit, DOES NOT imply there is a memory leak. If that were
so, then every program on systems without enough memory
to run all the programs together would ALL have memory
leaks. Yet on another system with substantially more
RAM, the "memory leak" would be non-existant. If you are
running at about, or even below, the minimum memory
requirements for all the programs running on the system,
then when MSAS hits the registry, then it's likely to
need more RAM, as the registry can be HUGE on some
systems.

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Wor what it's worth I had a computer come in for repair
full of viruses. The virtual memory for MSAS climbed to
over 2gb. It had hung up on the registry entries for I
believe HKLM\Software\WinUpdate (Spyware). After
removing the offending entries it scanned normally.
 
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