From: traff@myriad.net (Michael Traffanstead) Subject: Re: McAfee VirusScan 19 Jun 1997 11:59:22 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33A97091.7B2EBFA6.cygnus.gnu-win32@myriad.net> References: <33A88DBB.98729BF2@afts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Disclaimer: The sender is solely responsible for the content of this message. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5C (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 i86pc) Original-To: Tom Greer Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".