Andrew,
C'mon guy, nothing crazy in your post.
It matches precisely with my experiences as well. However I demanded that MIS
remove the Open, Run and background scanning from my configuration and they
obliged, no issues after that. It would still scan anything coming in through
email or the internet and I believe it still scanned anything I brought onto my
drive from the network or anything I put (copy or move) on the network. Having
done that I never had any significant performance hit or problems with the
machine
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 25, 2005 5:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [PEDA] Norton Antivirus software... interfere with Protel?
One thing I've noticed about the curent anti-virus paradigm is that the
software is constantly scanning. Here at my workplace, our MIS
department has McAfee installed, and it scans each and every file
accessed at any time, along with daily scans of each and every file on
my system). In other words, the program is, for all intents and
purposes, constantly in the foreground, grinding away on the harddrive
and eating up memory and processor power. The nuymber of page faults
generated daily by this software is also quite staggering, and peak
memory usage is in the neighborhood of 75-80M.
You could always do what some other professionals do, and disable
auto-scanning by your antiviral software. Instead of relying on the
anti-viral software to manage your computer (as is the default behavior
for the average-minded, stupid consumer or paranoid MIS department,
desperate to avoid any contamination of networked computers due to the
fact that many of those same consumers also have computers at work),
perform periodic scans manually yourself. For instance, when you
download a customer file, scan it. Just don't scan the entire hard drive
every time you get a single new file...
My two cents. Probably be ignored as another crazy Jenkinsism or
re-stated by someone else here to their credit, but that's okay. At
least I tried.
aj
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