>I am using Norton Antivirus 2003, and has it running in the background with the Auto-Protect feature.
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>However, I am experiencing, that opening projects in Visual Foxpro 6 and 7 is very slow, when Auto-Protect is enabled, and the speed is normal, when I disable Auto-Protect.
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>I have tried to exclude all foxpro filetypes in the Auto-Protect settings, though without any luck - it is still very slow.
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>Does anybody have an solution, where I can have Auto-Protect enabled, and still open Visual Foxpro projects without having to wait 8-10 minutes every time (it is a big project, but without Auto-Protect it is about 2-5 secs.).
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I've had nothing but trouble with NAV; I recommend using Trend Micro's PC-Cillin. The best thing I can say about it is that the current sersion (PC-Cillin 2003) will permit you to update virus patterns and engines as often as every 10 minutes given a continuous Internet connection (cable modem/DSL/T1 etc), it's far less intrusive and resource consuming than NAV, it can be cleanly uninstalled and since switching to it (or its big brother, OfficeScan in conjunction with ServerProtect, their server-based AV and update administrator) I have yet to lose a station to a virus without a lot of hard wark on the part of the end-user to override the protection and load up a Trojan Horse program, and that was stopped dead in its tracks by our firewall.