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what antivirus do your developers use?

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by reain

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I have been going round and round with a developer here that uses MS Visual C++ and Visual Source Safe. He refuses to use antivirus software that runs as a background process saying that his development work sets off the antivirus alarms and increases file access times by as much as 300%.

Anyone have experience in dealing with such matters? Have you found a product that works better in a development environment?

Thanks,
-DLSR

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by mark_m

We use Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition v7.5. I am not seeing any problems with false alerts, and receive no complaints about file access times from our developers.

We develop in C++, VB and java.

We did have one user who was complaining that NAV used too much memory, and decided to load something else on his machine. That user later changed his mind and went back to NAV (I think that being disconnected from the LAN might have been influential in that decision 8^)).

by silverback

I've used Norton for years, with short-duration flirtations with IBM AV and McAfee. At home, where I have a choice, I use Norton SystemWorks. At work, we use NAV Corporate, and have had absolutely no problems with false alarms, extravagant use of resources, or any other problems. You might look at the scanning options--if memory serves correctly, there's an option that specifies that you scan a file whenever it's opened. Obviously, that's going to slow your system response time. Good luck with your recalcitrant developer.

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