OT:Food for thought

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Marco Obaid [mailto:marco at MUW.EDU]
>Envoyé : 3 mars, 2004 15:51
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Food for thought
>
>
>Quoting Dave's List Addy <listonly at WEBPRESENCEGROUP.NET>:
>
>> On 3/3/04 2:20 PM, "Peter Bonivart" wrote:
>>
>> > I guess the real question is, how is it possible that 
>there still is
>> > users stupid enough to spread this? :-)
>>
>> I read something the other day that was a study of users and 
>how they felt;
>>
>> A. The Help Desk should be handling this.
>>
>> B. They don't have time to make sure it's not a virus and 
>should be able to
>> open mail as they please (refer to A.) Or bother with updates. (Gotta
>> EBay!!)
>>
>> C. Nothing they can do about it so what's the fuss.
>
>Add to this, that most Desktop Antivirus solutions do hijack 
>system resources.
>I have caught many users turning off the Antivirus because it 
>"slows down"
>their machines. I do not blame them, because I have done this 
>myself a time or
>two when I was working on complex project with so many screens open.

Your users should't be able do disable it.

I used to work with Mcafee a lot and by tweaking the settings for some applications, we saw tremendous results.

I just disabled the "scan all files" and enabled "scan executables only" (a lot more than .exe were on the list, though... dlls, and other types).  We got from 1m40s for opening a map to 40 secs.  We did that only for users using this specific application.  Even with a careful analysis, i couldn't find exactly what type of files I had to exclude :(.

The next day, I was recognized as a god in this department :)
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>
>>
>> Many more but those seemed to stand out to me. This was a 
>Novel Study I
>> think done in the UK.
>> --
>> Thanks!!
>> David Thurman
>> List Only at Web Presence Group Net
>>
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