I am wondering if anyone has noticed any problems involving VFP (SBT), and Inoculan.

We have just spent a week dealing with "fires" in our accounting department. We use SBT accounting software, version Pro 5.0, which is done with VFP 5. We had a number of almost random errors. They seemed related conceptually. Some would complain that a file could not be read. Others would complain that a file could not be opened or didn't exist. Sometimes our Redirector would time out.

At first I thought it may be a bad network card, but it wasn't. We tested our cards (both workstation and server), and we re-routed our network wires though a different hub. Everything tested fine...and had no effect...we still got errors.

Then we thought it may be an errant program. We identified a likely candidate and discovered that sometimes it wasn't running in it's own memory space. We fixed that...and still had problems.

We tested our data files and everything opened and browsed properly. We had SBT reindex all of it's files and that didn't help either.

We decided to restore the SBT system back to it's state of 2 months ago...when we did not have this problem... We thought that would either place the blame firmly on hardware or software/data. If we still had the problem then that would indicate it was hardware...

We still got the same errors.

There was still one thing to check. We had a service on the server, which had been active for a long time, which we could turn off. We had previously made adjustments to it, and later "unmade" those adjustments...so we thought that cleared the service of responsibility.

We turned off the service and the problems went away...

Maybe the "problem" is still there and the service is just the "final straw"...but the errors no longer occur.

Maybe we'll move the service to another machine.

The service we turned off was Inoculan...our anti-virus software!

Has anyone heard of any behaviors like this?

We've used Inoculan for a long time and this is the first time we've had this problem.

Rick Liebespach