Windows 10: Windows 10 Antimalware Service Executable

Is the Windows 10 Antimalware Service Executable, malware?

My new DELL XPS13 running Windows 10 almost completely locks me out from time to time, when running the Antimalware Service. The task cannot be killed. You take a break, go for a coffee, return to the machine, and AMS has it locked. Plus, it heats up the machine to the max and forces the fan to crank up where it is audible and you wonder what is going on.

Assuming AMS is not malware, is there a way to tune it? To throttle it back a bit.

Help. - David

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Antimalware Service Executable - How do I stop it completely?

Hello Aniax,

As you are facing issues with high performance usage by Antimalware Service Executable service on your device, we will help you with this issue.

I would like to inform that Antimalware Service Executable is a part of Windows Essentials.

I suggest you to refer to the below post and check if your issue matches with the same. If so, try the troubleshooting steps suggested by
GreginMich replied on November 6, 2015 and check if it helps.

How to stop Antimalware Service Executable from hogging cpu on Windows
10

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue. We will be happy to help you.

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Antimalware Service Executable problem

I am still having the problem even with the latest prerelease build. The Antimalware Service Executable process is often running and taking a lot of CPU, disk and memory. The same The Antimalware Service Executable -> Windows Defender Service ...
Too often the PC (an I7 one, 8 GB EliteBook HP) is stuck and even the response of a keyboard entry is very slow!!

Any suggestions?

 

Antimalware Service Executable problem

I was having the same issue like for weeks on my HP Probook Ci5 12GB, the Antimalware Service Executable process was eating up massive CPU, DISK and RAM. After all the hard time I got searching the solution I finally landed on

this article which helped me.