McAffe reading video files

I have McAffee Enterprise 8.0i in Win XP, and it works great most
of the time. However, sometimes, when starting video file playback, (VMW
or AVI) by double-clicking, the player (BSplayer in my case) comes up,
and then waits for about 1 to 3 minutes, while mcshield.exe reads
something. When observed in Task Manager, one can see that mcshield
reads hundreds of megabytes in the process. It is /not/ the video file
itself, (which /can/ be that big), but it's not that - it happens with
small video clips too - like 2 to 10 MB files, where mcshiled reads 100
or 200 MB (as seen in the "I/O read bytes" column of Task Manager.
Any idea of what's going on? It does /not/ happen on all video
files, just on some. I can understand it scanning the video file itself,
but the data it reads in the process is orders of magnitude more than that.

Problem solved. Turns out it is not the video file itself, but the
folder I'm playing it from. Since BSplayer builds a playlist from the
folder it is started in, it scans for media files in the folder.
Mcshield.exe, of course, scans ahead of it, and when I play a file in a
folder with thousands of files and gigabytes in total size, well, much
reading happens.


Patok wrote:
> I have McAffee Enterprise 8.0i in Win XP, and it works great most of
> the time. However, sometimes, when starting video file playback, (VMW or
> AVI) by double-clicking, the player (BSplayer in my case) comes up, and
> then waits for about 1 to 3 minutes, while mcshield.exe reads something.
> When observed in Task Manager, one can see that mcshield reads hundreds
> of megabytes in the process. It is /not/ the video file itself, (which
> /can/ be that big), but it's not that - it happens with small video
> clips too - like 2 to 10 MB files, where mcshiled reads 100 or 200 MB
> (as seen in the "I/O read bytes" column of Task Manager.
> Any idea of what's going on? It does /not/ happen on all video
> files, just on some. I can understand it scanning the video file itself,
> but the data it reads in the process is orders of magnitude more than that.