I got called in to help diagnose a "Why is everything so slow" problem at
the local school. I am a Linux person and haven't really used Windows
much for quite a while but still I have vastly more troubleshooting
experience than the kids that they contracted from the local computer
store (not knocking them - they just haven't had enough years of late
night go-till-you-drop-or-fix-it experience.)

These are Dell models something or other, 450mhz PIIIs with Windows 98Se.
I assumed that the problem was that they were getting used to their few
new P4s and AMDs and the older machines were slow by comparison.

Not!!! Man they are slow!!! Two and three minute boot times. 30 second
to 90 second login times to the Novell server (over a 1gb ethernet line to
dual Xeon servers, no less.) Ethernet is running at about 1 percent of
capacity and the server load is seldom much higher.

Stripped a machine down to bare metal, started loading the software back,
good response. Till I reloaded the Symantec antivirus. Then the
machine screeched to a halt. Nothing I could set on it would improve
performance. Naturally, being the average customer, all the books for the
software have long since disappeared.

I will get some documentation for the software, which is their latest
version, I believe, but I was wondering if anyone else on here has a
performance problem with the same.

Being heads down in Linux I haven't paid much attention the the virus
stuff but I seem to remember the odd post of Norton being a hog and it
appears that Symantic has bought out the Norton AV.

Anybody???

Thanks
JP

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:32:30 -0500, Jimmy Phillips <sendto@spammers.com> wrote:

Check the following from a search of "slow antivirus" on symantecs site...
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...= bar_sch_nam
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...= bar_sch_nam
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...= bar_sch_nam

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Jimmy Phillips <sendto@spammers.com> wrote in
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Symantec AV is a resource hog. I would recommend Sophos Anti-virus. Its
fast, uses few resources and is updated hourly.
www.sophos.com

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