I hate the corporate antivirus installed!
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Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!! For restrictions on my profile I can't disable or at least change the process priority. In the manufacturer's website (everyone knows who is it), there is not even one choice to make a complaint about it, and our infrastructure departament says that I'm an isolated and irrelevant case, being that this happens to many of us. I'm starting to consider seriously as a good option to change of company :((
Alfredo Blanco wrote:
Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!!
I don't turn my work PC off so the scheduled scan that happens during off hours rarely, if ever, affects me. The old laptop that I use solely for music, however, was being beat to death when I turned it on and the scanner started up. I solved that by installing Ubuntu on it (and no AV software).
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That is the reason I don't shut down my machine at night. I just lock it and turn the monitors off.
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Alfredo Blanco wrote:
Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!!
I don't turn my work PC off so the scheduled scan that happens during off hours rarely, if ever, affects me. The old laptop that I use solely for music, however, was being beat to death when I turned it on and the scanner started up. I solved that by installing Ubuntu on it (and no AV software).
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
It should be a good option, if the powersupply could be reliable. But unfortunately it isn't.
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Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!! For restrictions on my profile I can't disable or at least change the process priority. In the manufacturer's website (everyone knows who is it), there is not even one choice to make a complaint about it, and our infrastructure departament says that I'm an isolated and irrelevant case, being that this happens to many of us. I'm starting to consider seriously as a good option to change of company :((
I hear you, buddy! My new work laptop is fast enough that I don't notice it, but on my old, two days a week my IO and CPU would be tanked by scan32.exe doing it's thing for *four hours*. Took 20 min to open up Visual Studio all the way, 1 or 2 minutes to compile and launch a basic web app, etc. It was a GPO setting that I couldn't alter. At some point it just gets absurd.
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It should be a good option, if the powersupply could be reliable. But unfortunately it isn't.
Alfredo Blanco wrote:
if the powersupply could be reliable. But unfortunately it isn't.
Where do you live? Marc
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It should be a good option, if the powersupply could be reliable. But unfortunately it isn't.
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Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!! For restrictions on my profile I can't disable or at least change the process priority. In the manufacturer's website (everyone knows who is it), there is not even one choice to make a complaint about it, and our infrastructure departament says that I'm an isolated and irrelevant case, being that this happens to many of us. I'm starting to consider seriously as a good option to change of company :((
Out of curiousity, which antivirus is it?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!! For restrictions on my profile I can't disable or at least change the process priority. In the manufacturer's website (everyone knows who is it), there is not even one choice to make a complaint about it, and our infrastructure departament says that I'm an isolated and irrelevant case, being that this happens to many of us. I'm starting to consider seriously as a good option to change of company :((
When I leave my desk at the end of every day, I do a restart on my desktop. That way I accomplish two things. First my PC is booted daily and secondly, the daily virus scans run at night. Each morning, I then log in to our corporate network and within a minute or so, the PC is raring to go. If I powered off the machine each night, then in the morning as part of the logon operations, a complete virus scan would occur effectively rendering the PC useless for about 5 to 10 minutes. Usually whenever there is a long weekend, I'll power off on the Friday and then power back on the following Tuesday morning. While the virus scan runs, I'll go for a coffee or disturb a coworker about my weekend activities. :)
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Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!! For restrictions on my profile I can't disable or at least change the process priority. In the manufacturer's website (everyone knows who is it), there is not even one choice to make a complaint about it, and our infrastructure departament says that I'm an isolated and irrelevant case, being that this happens to many of us. I'm starting to consider seriously as a good option to change of company :((
I used to work for a company where the policy was alot like yours. the virus scan was suppose to start at lunch, and any updates during " off" time ( you could postpone, however that would just leave you frustrated at a later date). Downside to this was the laptop tops or people who were crazy mobile, or worked during lunch. Same issue as you. One could also forget to change the timing of it as it was locked down. This was by policy which was put in place by higher ups (not IT, I'm talking higher). I feel your pain, but if your company is like the one I once worked for, up hill battle, and try to let it scan at lunch ( ducks wrath and paper balls). Kind of gives me the thought of building a scan software that isn't as system intensive yet still fairly through.
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Every day, when I turn on the pc in my work, I have to wait between 15 and 40 minutes to start working, and all because intermittently mcshield.exe process uses 100% of the CPU!!! For restrictions on my profile I can't disable or at least change the process priority. In the manufacturer's website (everyone knows who is it), there is not even one choice to make a complaint about it, and our infrastructure departament says that I'm an isolated and irrelevant case, being that this happens to many of us. I'm starting to consider seriously as a good option to change of company :((
Half an hour a day is over 5% of your 'working' time. Unless you're getting paid peanuts (in which case you should get paid peanuts somewhere more spiritually rewarding anyway), it would be much cheaper for them to get you a better computer or fix the policy than to keep wasting your time. Try taking it over the heads of the IT jobsworths who like to have Policies so they can feel important, and go straight to divisional director/CTO/whatever is appropriate in your company. "This is so annoying it is making me think about leaving" could be effective too, but only if you're indispensable ... otherwise you'll just get a reputation as a troublemaker and they'll be happy to have you leave.
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Alfredo Blanco wrote:
if the powersupply could be reliable. But unfortunately it isn't.
Where do you live? Marc
I live in Mexico City. But the funniest is in which company I work. It is the biggest insurance broker of the world, however they can't have a realiable & trustworthy 24 Hrs per day - 365 days per year powersupply :laugh:
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Out of curiousity, which antivirus is it?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
It's the enterprise edition of McAfee X|
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It's the enterprise edition of McAfee X|
I've the same exact thing installed on my machines at work, but never had this problem. Is this problem widespread at your workplace, or is that just a few people?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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When I leave my desk at the end of every day, I do a restart on my desktop. That way I accomplish two things. First my PC is booted daily and secondly, the daily virus scans run at night. Each morning, I then log in to our corporate network and within a minute or so, the PC is raring to go. If I powered off the machine each night, then in the morning as part of the logon operations, a complete virus scan would occur effectively rendering the PC useless for about 5 to 10 minutes. Usually whenever there is a long weekend, I'll power off on the Friday and then power back on the following Tuesday morning. While the virus scan runs, I'll go for a coffee or disturb a coworker about my weekend activities. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
It should be a good option if the powersupply could be reliable. But unfortunately it isn't. Many times I've tried to do so, finding the pc turned off the next morning. I'm still thinking on move me to another company.
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I used to work for a company where the policy was alot like yours. the virus scan was suppose to start at lunch, and any updates during " off" time ( you could postpone, however that would just leave you frustrated at a later date). Downside to this was the laptop tops or people who were crazy mobile, or worked during lunch. Same issue as you. One could also forget to change the timing of it as it was locked down. This was by policy which was put in place by higher ups (not IT, I'm talking higher). I feel your pain, but if your company is like the one I once worked for, up hill battle, and try to let it scan at lunch ( ducks wrath and paper balls). Kind of gives me the thought of building a scan software that isn't as system intensive yet still fairly through.
///////////////// -Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Man, would be fantastic if you build it. I'm sure that alot of people around the world will really preciated it.
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Half an hour a day is over 5% of your 'working' time. Unless you're getting paid peanuts (in which case you should get paid peanuts somewhere more spiritually rewarding anyway), it would be much cheaper for them to get you a better computer or fix the policy than to keep wasting your time. Try taking it over the heads of the IT jobsworths who like to have Policies so they can feel important, and go straight to divisional director/CTO/whatever is appropriate in your company. "This is so annoying it is making me think about leaving" could be effective too, but only if you're indispensable ... otherwise you'll just get a reputation as a troublemaker and they'll be happy to have you leave.
That's the kind of reputation that get who persistently complain about the same item in this company. I should think in a B plan.
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I've the same exact thing installed on my machines at work, but never had this problem. Is this problem widespread at your workplace, or is that just a few people?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
It seems that happen only on 1 of every 3 workstations. It means 300 of 900 employees.
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Man, would be fantastic if you build it. I'm sure that alot of people around the world will really preciated it.
Alfredo Blanco wrote:
Man, would be fantastic if you build it. I'm sure that alot of people around the world will really preciated it.
First thing that comes to mind with that Sentience; Sean Connery)Your sittin on a gold mine dar Young Calvin.... (saturday night live ref). Well bud, I think you just added in a new item for my midnight warrior work. I agree though, the two MAJOR scanners are process attention whores :/
///////////////// -Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
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It seems that happen only on 1 of every 3 workstations. It means 300 of 900 employees.
That's strange. Is there anything common or specific to those machines in which this problem occur? I'm trying to see if I could be of some help, because I know of a team here (well, I work for McAfee) who provides fixes for issues like that. I understand if you are not very concerned, but if you're willing to provide more information, I could try to resolve this for you. The email link is enabled in this post, just in case you thought it's worth a try. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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That's strange. Is there anything common or specific to those machines in which this problem occur? I'm trying to see if I could be of some help, because I know of a team here (well, I work for McAfee) who provides fixes for issues like that. I understand if you are not very concerned, but if you're willing to provide more information, I could try to resolve this for you. The email link is enabled in this post, just in case you thought it's worth a try. :)
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
Thanks alot for your time and good will. But I haven't more information at glance. And yes, you're right, in other companies McAfee works pretty fine. Maybe I misunderstanding this item, and is just about someone who wants to give us a good, necessary, and forced coffe time. And that's the reason why nobody has made the effort to solve it.