WINDOW IDLE PROCESS IS NOT AN ACTUAL PROCESS. WIP is actually just showing you how much CPU is available, so you don't have to manually add it and for second to second monitoring of CPU.

Woops, sorry.

Didn't know that.

I bow to your adminship.

But my point to Grif remains.

Demodded lol. Anyawy, he's actually right. A virus scanner totally invades your privacy, and a lot of Virus Scanners even have bundled spyware, transmitting data from your computers back to wherever.

Ok fair point.

I still bow to your ex-adminship.

Who is replacing you anyway?

Dunno, but that's off-topic.

According to my dad (who knows too much about computers) the computer doesn't like to be doing nothing, so the Idle Process just uses it up doing nothing.

But basically you're right.

It just sends a constant stream of zeros to the CPU.

the real irony for me is that my McAfee came with i think 3 viruses or something like a virus. my mom didnt believe me it happened to my friends also. the true true true irony is that i recomend McAfee because it it quite useful. i think i have the advanced protection kit thing. its very helpful.

You should die. Mcaffee is the most idiotic thing I have ever seen. AVG forever.

We've got about, 5 or maybe more, I can't be bothered to count, so I can't really join in on this "MAH FIREWALLS IS TEH BETTARS!" argument.

I remember getting a virus so bad that it was easier for me to just format my hard-drive, and reinstall windows. I got my precious files off the old hard-drive first by making it a slave.

You aren't supposed to be running anything while running a virus scanner anyways. A virus scanner is something you leave on when you go out, or whatever.

If your computer is as slow as ♥♥♥♥, it's not the fault of the programs if your computer can't run them properly while everyone else can.

I've never updated my scanners or anything, though Windows Defender probably auto-updates.
I've also never really got a virus, when I did, I manually deleted it.


Also, the GREEKS made the Trojan Horse, not the Trojans. Just pointing it out.

I'd also like to point out that a computer virus's point is the same as that of a real virus, to infect a host and replicate. In that sense, most AVs aren't virii. Perhaps they're worms, then? If they're the ones that send info back about personal data, then yeah. I dunno really.

EDIT: Scratch that, some AVs just suck.