Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/08/15/11:58:53
Hi,
The Norton AntiVirus controls offer you a direct and "sanctioned" way to
disable or suspend virus checking without resort to subterfuge such as
invoking the debugger (assuming you have it installed, that is--is that
option even available if you don't have a debugger installed on your
system? I don't think so, but I'm not going to uninstall Visual C++ just to
find out...).
Personally, I don't enable my Norton Anti-Virus for continual monitoring. I
only use it on demand, either to make a full sweep (on rare occasions) or
when I receive a file that I find suspicious. I've never had an active
infection and only rarely have I ever discovered a virus in the first
place. Discounting the obvious ones, I could (if my memory were perfect)
almost certainly count on one hand the number of times I found a virus when
I wasn't already expecting one.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 08:26 2002-08-15, Jimm Burk wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Are you using win2K? if so start the task manager and switch to
>processes:
>
>If you are using Norton Antivirus you will find a process NOPDB.EXE which
>has something to with Norton. Check the process time of all the running
>processes and you may find the culprit. In my case it has always been the
>NOPDB. Which, by the way you CANNOT kill directly. :( Right click the
>process and say debug. You can then stop the process and low and behold
>cygwin will start moving again. This seems to appear more on the
>non-Intel processors, I have no idea why.
>
>Regards,
>Jimm Burk
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