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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darcy Davis
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:38 AM
To: PEDA (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [PEDA] Norton Antivirus software... interfere
with Protel?
I can't say I've seen any specific issues related to norton
and Protel.
However, after seeing how antivirus software (both norton and
mcaffee) eats
resources, I said forget it. I often use Protel for fairly complicated
designs, and I can't stand the additional delays due to AV
software. In
addition, antivirus software, by its nature, ties itself very
closely with
the OS, so when it gets confused it makes all kinds of
problems. Ever try
uninstalling one of these completely?
Like AJ said, one doesn't need to scan the hard drive itself
so long as you
know or scan anything incoming. However to take this even
further, I don't
even have a virus scanner installed on any computer I use.
Instead, for computer literate users, I recommend...
1) Run all computers behind a hardware firewall. Broadband routers are
cheap, you get a 4-port switch, and they will protect you
from penetrating
virus' such as welchia etc.
2) Use Mozilla Firefox for browsing. There are some pages
that won't work
and you'll have to fail over to IE, but firefox hasn't been
targetted by
scum to the same extent that IE is. And to boot, you get a
download manager,
tabbed browsing and several other nice features.
3) Be very discriminate about what you download or run on. If
I'm concerned
about something I use one of the online virus scans such as
Trendmicro's.
Though you won't hear this recommended by many IS
departments, I'm much more
satisfied with this solution. In fact, I did try norton not
too long ago and
it only strengthened my resolve to steer well clear.
Darcy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 25, 2005 6:15 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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks,Bill
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:29 PM
To: 'Protel EDA Discussion List'
Subject: [PEDA] Norton Antivirus software... interfere with Protel?
Does anyone have any data that would indicate that the slow
performance of Protel 99SE on a windows 2000 Professional
based system could be related to the Norton Antivirus program
interaction with it?
Lately my system is really running slow... I have 99SE and DXP
2004 on my system...
Any help much appreciated...
Best regards,
Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510 Datron World
Communications, Inc.
_______________________________________
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Officer, Web Manager http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/
http://pcbwizards.com
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