Our business PCs have got McAfee installed as well. I tried to disable
scanning and other tasks, but MIS knows better, the network settings can't
be changed. With all the things it does it slows my machine and frustrates
me, still can't live without it. Then there is email monitoring, internet
traffic monitoring, etc. It gets worse all the time.
To answer the original question, my experiences with Norton are that it does
the job, but at a price. It slows the machine and you can't install any new
SW with anti-virus enabled. And in my experiences, it has affected work of
P99SE, as well as other SW on my machine. I liked its system management
features, though. Similar story with other anti-virus SW. In the end I have
found SW that so far did not show any of the disadvantages of the other
packages and if there is any slow down, I did not notice it yet.
On the other hand, one can not expect PII or PIII machines running W2K or
earlier to work 100% with SW written in 2005 for P4 with HT. There are too
many compatibility issues and it is not all M$ fault, as much as they can be
credited with being the cause of a lot of our frustrations.
Regards,
Igor
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Subject: RE: [PEDA] Norton Antivirus software... interfere with Protel?
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:14:37 -0400
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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>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?
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>Lately my system is really running slow... I have 99SE and DXP
>2004 on my system...
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>Any help much appreciated...
>
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