All this turmoil over scheduled scans... tell me, what do scheduled scans find that real-time scanning won't catch?
Scheduled scans are about as useful as software firewalls... Carl -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: User who doesn't like logging off / shutting down 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
