What is "Antimalware Service Executable," and why is it using 100-200mbs of my laptops memory?

[jamesemajamesemaj]

I've owned my Laptop for just about 1 year now, and it's never had any real issues (besides performance issues, and the hinges coming off of it), until about a couple of months ago when I opened up Task Manager to discover that I had something called "Antimalware Service Executable" using a lot of memory, about 200-ish-mbs with my 8gb memory. That isn't very good, and with all the other background programs, it is using 60% of my memory with absolutely nothing open. Can someone please tell me what it is, what it does, how to turn it off, and should I turn it off(if you can turn it off). Thank y

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