Re: How to turn off the "File System Real-time Protection" in Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition?

From: Dmitriy Kopnichev (kopn_at_hotbox.ruDELETE)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:43:52 +0400

I have actively used my computer for 5 years without the "Real-time
protection" and didn't have problems with viruses. Does the protection
against viruses (which I catch without the Real-time protection) worth the
slowing down?
"Phil Weldon" <notdisclosed@example.com> wrote in message
news:6bskc.96$Hs1.41@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Dmitriy, what I was trying to point out is that normal operation of a
Norton
> AntiVirus scan should not be a bottle neck; if 7,714 files contining 182
> Mbytes of data require only 1 minute 57 seconds with a Celeron 600, then
you
> should consider looking for some other bottleneck; page file thrashing,
for
> example that could be analyzed with 'Task Manager'.
>
> What exactly is the task that requires 5 X the time with NAV as without
NAV?
> Your CPU should outperform the Celeron 600 mobile by about 3 times (if
your
> Pentium 4 is a Northwood.) If you are just transfering from one drive to
> another within the same system, then 200 Mbytes of data in 7000 files
would
> take ~ 10 seconds without accounting for file overhead. If that is the
> case, then 40 seconds CPU time used for scanning would increase the task
> time by five. But that can't be the case, so the bottleneck is elsewhere.
>
> --
> Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom
> For communication,
> replace "at" with the 'at sign'
> replace "mindjump" with "mindspring."
> replace "dot" with "."
>
> "Dmitriy Kopnichev" <kopn@hotbox.ruDELETE> wrote in message
> news:%23eBj$WnLEHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > My system has 256 MB of (administrator said, faster) physical memory. My
> CPU
> > is P4-1800. My hard drive is 7200 rpm.
> > "Phil Weldon" <notdisclosed@example.com> wrote in message
> > news:Guhkc.17868$e4.4038@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > > Back to the performance hit. How much physical memory does your
system
> > > have?
> > >
> > > Just for an experiment, and granted that most of the system, program
and
> > > data are very different from yours, I ran the following -
> > >
> > > Using Norton Antivirus 2003 (latest definitions and updates)
> > > Dell notbook with 600 MHz mobile Celeron (256 Kbyte L2 cache)
> > > 60 Gbyte 4200 rpm hard drive
> > > 256 Mbyte SDRAM
> > >
> > > using the 'Framework SDK' folder in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
> (7,714
> > > files, 1591 folders, 182 Mbytes Data)
> > >
> > > the CPU time utilized for scanning by NAVW32.exe was 1 minute 57
> seconds,
> > > and the bottle neck was the relatively slow hard drive.
> > >
> > > At least the dataset seems close to yours. All this leads me to think
> you
> > > have some performance bottle neck other than the processing time
> required
> > by
> > > the NAV scan.
> > > --
> > > Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom
> > > For communication,
> > > replace "at" with the 'at sign'
> > > replace "mindjump" with "mindspring."
> > > replace "dot" with "."
> > >
> > > "Dmitriy Kopnichev" <kopn@hotbox.ruDELETE> wrote in message
> > > news:eS4MPXeLEHA.268@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > > It's not possible.
> > > > "Phil Weldon" <notdisclosed@example.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:FA5kc.13973$eZ5.11479@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > > > > Is it possible for you at your level of system access to exclude
> > certain
> > > > > file types from scanning?
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom
> > > > > For communication,
> > > > > replace "at" with the 'at sign'
> > > > > replace "mindjump" with "mindspring."
> > > > > replace "dot" with "."
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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