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This was one of the main reasons I moved my server to linux. Our IT department couldn't cope with disabling real time scanning on my server or even sections of it. They use Network Associates Macaffe 4.5.0 and the Performance Decrease is intolerable. I'd almost rather have a virus. Cheers Mikew Herb Croken wrote: > We are using Trend AV and had to disable realtime Scanning. With it enabled > we saw a 400% performance drop. I found this in an email passed around at > the time. > > It breaks the filesystem. What seems to be happening is what gets written to > the temp files that cvs uses is different to what is read back. This is > fatal... if it was doing something like deleting the files you'd just get an > error, but Norton is return 'ok' then returning junk. You end up with a > repository where the diffs end up as diffs based on the wrong data (usually > an empty file) which is pretty irretrevable. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Giesen [mailto:ogware at gmx.net] > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:54 AM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: [cvsnt] Antivirus survey > > > I know the general recommendation is to not use any AV software on the > CVSNT server machine at all but OTOH we've been using Innoculate IT > without problems all along. We are however planning to upgrade/switch > to a different scanner for various CVS-unrelated reasons, possibly CA > eTrust (i.e. InnoculateIT's official successor) or TrendMicro > ServerProtect. We already have experience with both products as we've > installed them at several of our customers and in the case of eTrust > it's already what we're using on our client machines. > > My question: > Does anybody have experience with these scanners in combination with > CVSNT servers/repositories? What AV products are you using? What have > you used in the past and found to be problematic? What additional steps > were necessary to make it work with CVSNT (e.g. excluding repository > folders and temp dirs from on-access scanning) if any? > > I think the results of this survey might make a nice starting point for > a Wiki page... > > "Which AV products work well with CVSNT, which don't and what has to be > done to make them?" > > Cheers, >