What the....
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This stinks!!! IT just had a guy sent over to "upgrade" the antivirus on my system. He's done installing the AV software, I reboot the PC, and the next thing I know RTVScan.exe is eating up 50% of my CPU. :mad: X|
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When the hell is some company going to come out with hardware based virus protection? Just sit in the bus and look at the bits as they whiz by and throw up a signal to the OS as to what is bad and what needs cleaning...
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
FORMAT C: /Y
How about format C: \u /y ? just to be sure :) Or even better, why not use FDisk? :)
"Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon
What is the U switch, and why does it come with a backslash?
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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I'm curious what other people are getting in the I/O Read Bytes and I/O Write Bytes columns in task manager (have to show them with View / Select Columns first). Since IT installed this thing both HDs are hammered non-stop (CPU usage is OK though). Rtvscan.exe is reading about 100 gigabytes and writing about 250 gigabytes per day according to those columns in task manager, which maybe explains why my builds take over 10 minutes....
Mine doesn't read or write anything like that much - maybe 7-10GB/day? But then maybe I don't build as often as you :-) It's still something like 100x more IO than any other process. Oh - and the other thing - it has 18-20 processes open constantly. Doing what? No idea.
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Can you compromise and exclude the location of your sourcefiles from the Realtime options - we have an AV Policy at work, so we live with it but exclude our Subversion Tree.. James
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Mitch HedbergJames Simpson wrote:
Can you compromise and exclude the location of your sourcefiles from the Realtime options
Mmmmm - not sure. It would need admin access (which officially I don't have). Getting our IT people to do it officially is a non-starter - our IT security team are as paranoid as they come and unwilling to listen to reason (or maybe they're that incompetent they don't recognise reason..yep, that'll be it). Anyway, these days it doesn't matter too much, as we've recently acquired development machines on a LAN that's completely separated (air-gapped) from our corporate LAN. I use AVG there, which works very nicely thank you very much :-)
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What is the U switch, and why does it come with a backslash?
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
The u switch stops the format command from saving unformat information, therefore making sure your high-level format is a one way ticket :)
"Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon
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The u switch stops the format command from saving unformat information, therefore making sure your high-level format is a one way ticket :)
"Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon
Interesting, but I don't see it when I type FORMAT /? Maybe they removed it in Vista.
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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Install more CPUs.
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Unplug your Internet connection.
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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Start - Run - cmd.exe Then type
FORMAT C: /Yand hit Enter. CPU usage will be down to 0.Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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When the hell is some company going to come out with hardware based virus protection? Just sit in the bus and look at the bits as they whiz by and throw up a signal to the OS as to what is bad and what needs cleaning...
As I know there are some models of Ethernet hardware routers / firewalls that have AV protection inside it. This can help. I can hardly imagine AV protection in BIOS :)
-- Sincerely yours, Peter A. Kurishev