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"Luke" <[email protected]> wrote on 05/07/2010 09:56:46 AM: > The Network Administrator and I have been working on this all > morning. Since about 7:00AM random machines on the Local Network > have been slipping into and out of a random state of > unresponsiveness ("Freezing"). > > The symptoms are pretty serious - I have seen it take up to 5 > minutes to bring an already open window from the background to the > foreground on client machines - and there are servers that are so > unresponsive that I am not even able to log into them (enter > Username and Password and nothing happens for the next 30min.). We > have had to cold boot one server 3 times in the past hour! > > This problem is not specific to any user, profile, machine, OS, > network switch, etc. - at least from what we have been able to > Identify. So far it has affected Windows 7, XP and Server 2003. > However, this issue is not affecting everyone on the network. My > Colleague sitting right next to me has been having all kinds of > trouble with his PC and I have not. > > We have found that cold booting the affected machines does help a > little or at least for a while, but more often than not the machine > will just return to its unresponsive state after a few minutes. On > the machines that I have that are accessible I am attempting scan with Vipre. > > We are seriously starting to suspect that Vipre is doing something > (in the background that we cant see) that is actually causing all > this. We completely removed Vipre from one PC that was having > trouble and it seemed to fix the problem. The PC has been running fine since. > > Any thoughts? > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
