[cvsnt] disabling Norton Antivirus Realtime protection??

Björn Carlsson bc_remove_ at passagen.se
Mon Jan 12 21:44:30 GMT 2004


Glen Starrett wrote:

>>The reason, as I understand it, is due to the large volume of 
>>files that
>>the cvs service requires to read during a cvs update.  For every file
>>that cvs reads, nav also does a virus scan.  In our case, once we
>>disabled realtime protection we saw updates take one third 
>>the time they
>>did previously.
> 
> 
> It also can cause an occasional error on normal CVS operations, especially
> on busy CVS servers.  Sometimes you can get "can't rename file"... because
> AV is still reading it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Glen Starrett
> 
> 
And it even cause some problems saving file in Visual Studio sometimes, 
and increses the compile time to the double time...



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