Most of our machines are about that old, but we tend to under-resource our machines - I finally had to put my foot down to get our engineers to 1gb of RAM, and in a few cases 2gb. I get complaints from those who stay late on Monday night, and I finally told them to get in the office earlier and go home before it starts.
I get some complaints about the Wednesday scan, too, and tell those folks to go to lunch, like normal people. Kurt On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 18:20, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]> wrote: > A three year old Dell laptop....not anything special at all. > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You have a better machine than most of our folks, I suppose. We have >> noticeable slowdowns on many of our machines. >> >> Still, it's *FAR* better than McAfee. >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 17:52, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > You can't be serious.....I installed Vipre on my pc and started a deep >> > scan >> > right as my lunch hour started. Played a FPS game at lunch and never >> > noticed a performance hit at all. >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Welllllllllllllllll, Vipre still bogs down our PCs here when the weekly >> >> deep scan is running. We get the same complaints we had when we used >> >> Symantec. The quick scans are not noticed, but I'm bummed that the >> >> deep >> >> scan causes a very noticeable performance loss. It's set at low >> >> priority, >> >> but still the vipre process is first/second in memory/cpu usage during >> >> the >> >> deep scans. Anything that uses those sort of resources is *not* >> >> running at >> >> low priority. >> >> >> >> >>> Jonathan Link <[email protected]> 10/22/2009 7:47 PM >>> >> >> Or go to Vipre... >> >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Eric Woodford <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Sorry, can't help. I hate to logoff my pc because the security team >> >>> has >> >>> our AV do a full scan each time I logon. It takes a good 2 hours of >> >>> 100% >> >>> processing on my machine. The easy fix is to disable the AV, but... >> >>> Maybe they just need to remove a few apps out of their startup, so it >> >>> boots faster. >> >>> >> >>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Andrew Levicki <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Hi, I've got a user who doesn't want to log off let alone shut down >> >>>> their computer. >> >>>> They claim that it takes too long and they haven't got time to wait >> >>>> to >> >>>> log on again or start up. >> >>>> >> >>>> They're important enough that I can't force them to do so, but I'm >> >>>> worried about possible problems. >> >>>> The only detrimental effects that I can think of are added power >> >>>> consumption and ticket expiration. >> >>>> Can anybody else think of any other pitfalls or even have any >> >>>> experience >> >>>> of this and how did you deal with it? >> >>>> Thanks, >> >>>> Andrew >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is >> >> for >> >> the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential >> >> and >> >> privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or >> >> distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, >> >> please >> >> contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the >> >> original >> >> message. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Sherry Abercrombie >> > >> > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." >> > Arthur C. Clarke >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > Sent from Hurst, TX, United States > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
