Symantec antivirus eats up too much memory?

Question

So I am gonna install a Labview program thats logs data and send the data by email, on a ship using satelite internet. If the sat internet fails, the emails will be store in the 2G memory of the PC.
So the customer IT guy ask will Symantec antivirus (which requires 2G memory according to him) eats up Labview memory, and cause Labview program to crash a few weeks later? 
Have you guys have any bad experience with Symantec antivirus crashing Labview? Or Symantec's firewall blocking Labview email transmission and stuff like that?
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Answer 1

You are confusing RAM with hard disk space. You would not store emails in the 2GB of "memory" of the PC. You would store the emails on the hard drive. It makes no sense to store in them in RAM, as that's temporary storage, and you'd lose it if the computer gets turned off or it reboots. 
As for the Symantec issue, Symantec has its share of problems, just like every other atrocity that we otherwise affectionately know as anti-virus programs.  Symantec anti-virus, however, does not require 2GB of memory. Your IT guy, I suspect, probably despises Symantec products. As far as how much memory it actually requires, that completely depends on the version that you're looking at (including whether it's a "home" version, or a "business" version, or whether it's the standalone antivirus program, or whether it's the one that's included in the full-blown security suite).