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        <title>Re: McCrapfee</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[In my opinion, McAfee is worst than a virus for Java developers. You must have a dual core CPU in order to be 100% productive with McAfee running in your computer. 

McAfee "On-Access Scan" daemon is a very dangerous virus.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:47:17 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:47:17 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Mar 28, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Julio Mieza</jf:author>
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        <title>McCrapfee</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I remember the good old days of running McCrapfee.  I got our entire company to switch to a different A/V.  My favorite feature of McCrapfee wasn't how it made Java run slower - It actually made our Start menus slower.  Sometimes impossibly slow.  Each...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:35:55 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:35:55 -0400</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:35:55 -0400</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Mar 27, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>JonathanLeech</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Ah.. the most annoying service..</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Does McAfee look at the content of files to decide what to scan or does it just look at file extensions?...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:19:55 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:19:55 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Mar 27, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>David Martin</jf:author>
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        <title>Yeah good luck with that</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Ahem....<br><br>net stop "McAfee Framework Service"<br>net stop "Network Associates McShield"<br>net stop "Network Associates Task Manager"<br><br>for best results, include the above statements in your startup...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:57:57 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:57:57 -0400</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:57:57 -0400</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Mar 27, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Jing Xue</jf:author>
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        <title>any substance to the claim?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Has anyone out there ever found that one of these AV scanners every picked up "malicous" java code/jars ???

What are the chances..]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:50:29 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:50:29 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Mar 27, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Warren Farre</jf:author>
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        <title>Solution:</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Use a *real* operating system (hint: not Windows) :D

Then you don't have to bother with virus scans, BODs, ...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:01:41 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:01:41 -0400</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:01:41 -0400</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Mar 27, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Brandon India</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Ah.. the most annoying service..</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Ahem....

net stop "McAfee Framework Service"
net stop "Network Associates McShield"
net stop "Network Associates Task Manager"

for best results, include the above statements in your startup script.

Cheers.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:37:34 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>John Smith</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Ah.. the most annoying service..</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Yep, a problem, however, you can configure most virus scanners to "not" scan nominated directories for read (eg eclipse plugins dir)]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:06:24 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:06:24 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Michael Quinn</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Ah.. the most annoying service..</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>And, yes, our tech support people have McAfee configured to restart every 10 minutes if it's disabled.  </blockquote>
change the name of the exe. :)]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:22:22 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Mark N</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: Ah.. the most annoying service..</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I never had any problems with Eclipse until I started running it under Java 1.5 and now it will run OK most of the time, but occasionally it totally locks up, generally when you least want it to (like prompting for an auto-complete)....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:59:41 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>D S</jf:author>
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        <title>Ah.. the most annoying service..</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[From my experience I noticed that Macafee virus scan really kills productivity for java developers...It effects my.....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:34:21 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:34:21 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>suresh thalluri</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>6</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>McAfee: Hold that Jar!</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Hi there,...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:13:25 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Geert Pante</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Do Java programs get handled poorly by antivirus programs?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Absolutely and that's specially true with McAfee. I wonder if it's because JAR files are treated as ZIP files, making the AntiVirus scan each class as it is opened....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:14:27 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:14:27 -0400</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:14:27 -0400</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Andre Aragao</jf:author>
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        <title>Re: Do Java programs get handled poorly by antivirus programs?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[In the past I had problems with this when I would try to run apps with a large number of jars such as Eclipse/WSAD.  If these applications' bin directories were not added to the exclusions, it would take forever to load.  I'll admit that I turned off the...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:11:02 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>James Watson</jf:author>
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        <title>Do Java programs get handled poorly by antivirus programs?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44775</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Charlie Hubbard <a href="http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t92471.html">asked</a> if "Java [is] the victim of computer language equivalent of racial profiling? And, is this action perpetuating the myth that Java is slow?" on Javalobby. This isn't much...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:36:41 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Mar 26, 2007</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Joseph Ottinger</jf:author>
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