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Re: McAfee VirusScan
- To: Tom Greer <tomjr at afts dot com>
- Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan
- From: Michael Traffanstead <traff at myriad dot net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:46:57 -0500
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: CounterSpin Development
- References: <33A88DBB.98729BF2@afts.com>
> gnu-win32 and McAfee VirusScan for NT are almost *totally*
> incompatible. If you are running MV, you will get lots of fork()
> failures, because MV tries to scan stuff as it gets loaded into
> memory,
> causing the initialization of the fork() target to be delayed, which
> causes bash's process control to choke.
MV lets you control the operations that are scanned. I usually
disable "scan on load/read" and just enable "scan on write". It's
no where near as secure but it's definately a whole lot faster.
traff
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