Should McAfee Personal Firewall be using this much RAM?

[redivider]

I have McAfee Personal Firewall Plus installed on a WinXP Pro system. In the task manager, there are three seperate processes associated with this program running, adding up to a total of about 125,000 k in the "mem usage" column. "MpfTray.exe" alone is using 120,108k. That seems like a lot for a firewall application. Am I crazy or is that way more RAM than this program should need?

If so, what would be causing this to happen?

Luckily I have 1,024MB of RAM, so it's not necessarily a huge problem, but I want to see if I can do anything about it.

Thanks...
Dan

 

[crisp82]

Umm...thats a bit...

Get ZoneAlarm

 

[DannyBoy]

Its using waaaaaaay more than it should be 🙁

 

[redivider]

Any ideas on why this would be happening?

I guess I'm just gonna reinstall and see if anything changes.

 

[oboeguy]

Does it always use that much? or does the amount grow over time? I would say it's a crappy program with a memory leak. There's no way it really needs that much RAM.