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From: traff AT myriad DOT net (Michael Traffanstead)
Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan
19 Jun 1997 11:59:22 -0700 :
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> gnu-win32 and McAfee VirusScan for NT are almost *totally*
> incompatible.  If you are running MV, you will get lots of fork()
> failures, because MV tries to scan stuff as it gets loaded into
> memory,
> causing the initialization of the fork() target to be delayed, which
> causes bash's process control to choke.

MV lets you control the operations that are scanned.  I usually
disable "scan on load/read" and just enable "scan on write".  It's
no where near as secure but it's definately a whole lot faster.

traff

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