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  • M Michael A Barnhart

    Why must the IT dept schedule the virus checker to run just after you log in each morning and it takes a good hour+ to run. (We all are required to have several network disks attached and I am sure it is scanning them all.) I can hardley do anything that first hour. :mad::confused::sigh: "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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    David Wulff
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    Don't get me started. Mine scans every night at 9pm... unless of course you actually need to get some work done at any time during the working day, in which case it will happily use 90% of my CPU and RAM to randomly scan everything it can get away with for two hours. Oh yeah, and when I restart too - that causes two more hours of system lockups and waiting for Notepad to finish reading its document back from the page file because they give me 256MB RAM and expect me to run Windows 2000, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio .NET 2003, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.NET and then have the cheek to ask me to do some work too! :mad: :sigh:


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    • M Michael A Barnhart

      Why must the IT dept schedule the virus checker to run just after you log in each morning and it takes a good hour+ to run. (We all are required to have several network disks attached and I am sure it is scanning them all.) I can hardley do anything that first hour. :mad::confused::sigh: "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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      Roger Allen
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      Michael A. Barnhart wrote: I can hardley do anything that first hour. Do what I do, sleep at your desk. Come to think of it, I do that all day...... Roger Allen - Sonork 100.10016 If your dead and reading this, then you have no life!

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      • M Michael A Barnhart

        Why must the IT dept schedule the virus checker to run just after you log in each morning and it takes a good hour+ to run. (We all are required to have several network disks attached and I am sure it is scanning them all.) I can hardley do anything that first hour. :mad::confused::sigh: "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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        Rohit Sinha
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        They're not wasting your time, they're giving you a chance to rest. After all that sleep in the night, you need it. :-D Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy

        Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

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        • M Michael A Barnhart

          Why must the IT dept schedule the virus checker to run just after you log in each morning and it takes a good hour+ to run. (We all are required to have several network disks attached and I am sure it is scanning them all.) I can hardley do anything that first hour. :mad::confused::sigh: "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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          Roger Wright
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          Someone in the IT dept screwed up. Everyone knows that virus scanning should be set up to start the moment you click on "Build." "Your village called -
          They're missing their idiot."

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            Someone in the IT dept screwed up. Everyone knows that virus scanning should be set up to start the moment you click on "Build." "Your village called -
            They're missing their idiot."

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            Vikram A Punathambekar
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            That is a popular misconception, Rog. It should actually start when you click "Rebuild all". :-D Vikram.


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            • M Michael A Barnhart

              Why must the IT dept schedule the virus checker to run just after you log in each morning and it takes a good hour+ to run. (We all are required to have several network disks attached and I am sure it is scanning them all.) I can hardley do anything that first hour. :mad::confused::sigh: "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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              Jim Crafton
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              We had the same thing. Our IT had the virus scanner set to start at 10:30AM every damn day, and it took well over an hour and a half to run. So, to get around this, your truly wrote a little program to reboot the machine, popping a dialog telling me I had a 1 minute to close up before reboot. I scheduled this to run at 10:31, and presto! When I got back from the reboot, the virus scanner would not restart for the day, so I could go back to work (presumably it thought it was done?). ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned

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              • M Michael A Barnhart

                Why must the IT dept schedule the virus checker to run just after you log in each morning and it takes a good hour+ to run. (We all are required to have several network disks attached and I am sure it is scanning them all.) I can hardley do anything that first hour. :mad::confused::sigh: "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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                jparsons
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                Sometimes when I log into the lab at school I get 2 or 3 virus scanners running at the same time. The best part is that its the same program. Jared jparsons@jparsons.org www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte477n

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                • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                  That is a popular misconception, Rog. It should actually start when you click "Rebuild all". :-D Vikram.


                  "Don't give redundant error messages again and again" - a classmate of mine, giving a class talk on compiler design. Shameless plug: http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar Prodly putting Coimbatore on the map of CP!

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                  Stefan Pedersen
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                  *BEEP* Wrong answer! Then it might miss all those yummy .obj files :) And if the paths that I have followed/have tread against the flow/there is no need for sorrow I am coming home Return, Crüxshadows

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                  • M Michael A Barnhart

                    Why must the IT dept schedule the virus checker to run just after you log in each morning and it takes a good hour+ to run. (We all are required to have several network disks attached and I am sure it is scanning them all.) I can hardley do anything that first hour. :mad::confused::sigh: "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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                    JoeSox
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                    Michael A. Barnhart wrote: I can hardley do anything that first hour. Come into work an hour earlier.;P Later, JoeSox When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil. --Jack Handy Deep Thoughts joeswammi.com ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ joeswammi.com/sinfest

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                      Michael A. Barnhart wrote: I can hardley do anything that first hour. Come into work an hour earlier.;P Later, JoeSox When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil. --Jack Handy Deep Thoughts joeswammi.com ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ joeswammi.com/sinfest

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                      Michael A Barnhart
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                      JoeSox wrote: Come into work an hour earlier. I will not let myself be minpulated that easily. ;P "For as long as I can remember, I have had memories. Colin Mochrie."

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