performance of McAfee Virusscan Enterprise 8i

Hi,

as user of Version 7.0 of their scanner, I upgraded to version 8i and
I'm shocked about the poor performance of this scanner!

I've installed it onto three test stations (all like Pentium III 550MHz,
not the fastest machine, but not the slowest also) and all stations are
much slower than before.

- on access scanning with "scan compressed files" enabled is horrible
when starting java-like applications (like firefox or Novell ConsoleOne)

- excluding jar-files does not work, I have to disable the above noted
option completely

- on demand scan job (even without scanning of compressed files) takes
approx. double the time than before with v7 (and v7 did scanning of
compressed files!)

- scanner and ePoAgent are not only slow, when they are busy they block
the whole workstation for several seconds! This is really annoying.

- I've already disabled all new features (script scanning and so on) but
no success

- I've already talk to support, but they had no clues how to fix the
situation


I like to know if this an isolated problem here or if the new scanner
(with old scan engine 4.400) is indeed this much slower than the old
one.

Thanks in advance,

Bye, Frank

I agree with you, 100%

Very annoying...

I was given a refund by Macafee after describing similar problems.





<f.nospamlangner.RemoveThis@isam-ag.de> wrote in message
news:MPG.1cf439b994f00307989687@news...
> Hi,
>
> as user of Version 7.0 of their scanner, I upgraded to version 8i and
> I'm shocked about the poor performance of this scanner!
>
> I've installed it onto three test stations (all like Pentium III 550MHz,
> not the fastest machine, but not the slowest also) and all stations are
> much slower than before.
>
> - on access scanning with "scan compressed files" enabled is horrible
> when starting java-like applications (like firefox or Novell ConsoleOne)
>
> - excluding jar-files does not work, I have to disable the above noted
> option completely
>
> - on demand scan job (even without scanning of compressed files) takes
> approx. double the time than before with v7 (and v7 did scanning of
> compressed files!)
>
> - scanner and ePoAgent are not only slow, when they are busy they block
> the whole workstation for several seconds! This is really annoying.
>
> - I've already disabled all new features (script scanning and so on) but
> no success
>
> - I've already talk to support, but they had no clues how to fix the
> situation
>
>
> I like to know if this an isolated problem here or if the new scanner
> (with old scan engine 4.400) is indeed this much slower than the old
> one.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bye, Frank