Scoots5012 wrote:
On campus here, in order to be able to use the campus network, all computers must have installed on them the "offical" virus detection software which is symantec anti-virus.
Thats all and fine, but, the people on campus who made this version were morons and set every security measure as high as possible and then used some adminstrator function to lock them out.
Long story short - on my computer with the settings described by the network people, symantec pretty much does a continous virus scan of my hard drive. My hard drive is contstantly churning and my CPU usage was pegged at 100% the whole time. And since the program was given "normal" priority, it rendered my computer pretty much useless.
Anyways, last night I finally got fed up enough to seek action. Since the network adminstrators locked out all the settings, I rebooted in safe mode and hunted around with regedit and was able to find and change the values I needed that now have once again given me a useable computer.
The question being - I know that the symantec looks to an on campus server to get it's updates, and that's how the network police know if your in compliance with the software update policies by looking to see if your computer is downloading the updated virus def files. Same thing with windows updates, it checks to see if your computer is look at the MS windows update site. But, would symantec have anything inside itself that would narc to the network police that I was messing around with settings that were suppose to be locked?
You can easily bypass that by identifying as an operating system that doesn't need AV like mac or linux.
06 Feb 2006, 2:30 pm
