What is the Ekrn.exe process? Ekrn.exe process takes up a lot of memory

What is the Ekrn.exe process?

Ekrn.exe is the ESET Smart security or ESET NOD32 antivirus anti-virus software related program. Ekrn.exe occupy cpu100% problem belongs to the anti-virus software in the process of killing the normal phenomenon of the system, because the Svchost.exe constantly restart run cause, this is win system bugs, and kill software, so do not have to change any settings to kill soft.

This is a process of ESET NOD32 anti-virus software [1], its operation can ensure that the function of antivirus software is working properly. At the same time, this process starts with the system startup and is usually safe. If multiple or unknown occurrences do not correspond to whether or not the virus is being taken.
Process file: Ekrn.exe
Process Name: Ekrn.exe
Describe:
Ekrn.exe is the ESET Smart security or ESET NOD32 antivirus anti-virus software related program.
Produced by: Eset
Belongs to: ESET Smart security, ESET NOD32 Antivirus
System process: No
Background program: Yes
NOD32
Use Network: Yes
Hardware Related: No
Common error: Memory/cpu high occupancy
Memory usage: 2,000~6,000k (variable)
Security level (0 security-5 danger): 0
Spyware: No
Advertising software: No
Virus: No
Trojan: No
Can delete: May (will cause ESET antivirus software can not work)

Ekrn.exe process takes up a lot of memory

If you usually have such a large memory or CPU footprint, you can consider opening the Eset NOD32 window press F5 to find "Real-time file system protection" to turn this off. In addition, the related documentation shows that the CPU usage is too high for the system version (for Windows XP) Svchost.exe related bugs, and this bug is also associated with the Wuauclt.exe process (Windows Automatic Update automatic Updates) , you can turn off automatic Updates, or upgrade to SP3 version of XP or install Win7 and newer operating systems to completely resolve