Do you leave your AV program ennabled while burning?

[thorz]

Hello m8s

I would like to make this question to the people here.
After several tests done with 2 different applications: Nero (5.5.0.54 and 6.3.0) and Burnatonce (BAO version 0.99b) and 2 very used antivirus: NAV 2004 pro and Kaspersky AVP pro 4.5.0.94 I don't know if you have noticed the following:

Extremely high physical memory use when using CD/DVD mastering applications having a resident AV scanner ennabled. The most common simpthom is that the computer becomes less responsive when burning big files (700MB and up) in an ISO mode compilation (I call it mastering, I don't know if this is the correct term) image burning (BIN/CUE, Alcohol, Nero Image burning, etc) is not affected.

If you like you can see this thread that is the way to spot the problem:

_http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread...&threadid=82240

and here

http://www.dvdrbase.com/showthread.php?t=34978&page=2

All the applications tested worked ok having the antivirus scanners off while burning. I personally think that this is a bug in the antivirus programs and that it should be corrected. What I am very sorprised is to find so small information about this in the different forums.

I would like to know if you leave your AV program scanner ennabled while burning.

You can post comments about if you have noticed this problem also. This have been tested with more than one writer and have been confirmed by the antivirus companies in email answers from technical support.

 

[LTR12101B]

AVG 6 Free Edition - while some say it causes slowdowns, never noticed that or any problem with CD writing.
Only trouble I used to find... some updates seemed to tally with shutdown hangups, but never laid the blame for certain.

 

[Duracell]

i leave NAV2002 enabled with no problems;

 

[bionic]

I leave it enabled(avast) with no probs at all.

 

[The-poacher]

NO AV off then of course its off all the time I just check with it <> U have to be slipshod to get a virus !!!!

 

[DD51]

Never off...

I use AVG7 Pro. I NEVER turn it off and never experienced any problems.

 

[VIPER_1069]

nah i use AVG 6 freeware and never turn it off

never had ANY problems with anti-virus programs interferring with burning

 

[thorz]

This is email answer from SYmantec about the problem:

Welcome back. Thank you for contacting Symantec Online Technical Support.

In your message you wrote:

>> When Auto protect is enabled and you are burning

a large file in any cd mastering application, the free physical memory is used until 80%! When auto-protect is disabled, the memory stays in its normal point of use (arround 30%).

Thor, I wish to inform that when Auto-Protect is enabled while you are burning a CD, you can encounter the issue of more physical memory utilization. I suggest that you please disable Auto-Protect whenever you are burning a CD.

If you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Regards,

Susheel Bist
Symantec Authorized Technical Support
-------------------------

Hello Thor,

Welcome back and thank you for contacting Symantec Online Technical Support.

In your message you wrote:

>>Is the developer team working in a solution

to this problem?

Thur, please note that the development team is been intimated and they are working on the issue.

I request that you submit your suggestions at the following link:


>>Web URL:

www.sarc.com/feedback

Thank you for your patience, and thank you for using Symantec software.

Regards,

Suma Venkatesh
Symantec Authorized Technical Support

 

[VIPER_1069]

hey nice post THORZ nice to see tech support actually supporting a users question
but hey symantec are not that bad for a big company actually

sure people loath their software but many swear by it

 

[serjer]

with avast / & f-prot i can afford 2 let them run

 

[Seb]

Am so paranoid that i have both Nod32 and f-prot running @ all times
o_0

 

[38K]

I leave AV running (Norton 2003), plus DC++, Irc, Yahoo chat, email...etc etc

 

[FortiTude]

f-prot running all the time ... no probs ...
forti

 

[AZImmortal]

no problems here with NAV 2004 (or any previous AV in my experience).

 

[dx]

I usually turn off my Avast! 4.1 and a few other apps when I burn and/or play games. I have left them on before (to test) and have not had any problems though. However, I realize better performance with them off.

 

[weboneando]

I´m using F-prot and never had a problem, almost all the time while burning I´m also browsing the web and even sometimes playing some games.