philo schrieb:
"bmoag" wrote in message
If your computer is crashing when the virus program is turned on and not when the virus program is turned off the problem is probably not the virus program but the way your computer is set up. AVG is in fact a very
efficient
anti-virus program, compared to Norton for example, in the way it uses system resources. You most likely are running too many background programs that are hogging Windows resources. Even XP is plagued with the structural problem of all Windows OS: a limited number "stacks and heaps" by which
the
OS keeps track of what is where in memory. You also may not have Windows’ virtual memory and PS scratch disks set up properly. There are many resources to guide you through the MSCONFIG applet your start-up file to strip out unnecessary background programs.
Well the machine really runs nothing but Photoshop…
I built it mainly for just running that one application.
When Avast is turned off, the machine works 100% perfectly… it *only* has the problem when Avast is on.
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Slightly OT — since most viruses come via mail and if you’ve got XP Pro you may just switch Avast off while working with PS.
The thing is XP Pro allows to configure path rules which means you can inhibit executable from being run from certain paths (here for instance the one where all attachments end up).
In addition I do use a separate account for doing my photography related stuff. Unfortunately with administrative rights as my scanner application requires it and although there ways to get that done, too I just cannot be bothered as everything else I use to do with my "low on rights" account.
the problem appeared right after Avast was installed…so I was able to trace it to that quite easily.
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Could be a hardware related problem, too I think. For instance when loading / saving large files and if you’ve configured Avast such that it scans everything when reading / writing that is going to burn a few CPU cycles (heat) plus it could be a problem with your memory where Avast is loaded into.
Now XP allows you to tell the system it’d use less than the installed memory and it may be worth a try to see how things are going with say 1GB instead of two.
See the maxmem option …
http://www.microsoft.com/germany/technet/prodtechnol/winxppr o/reskit/c29621675.mspx …. and although it says "germany" — the article *is* in English 😎
Perhaps it’ll unveil something although I must admit not having problems. A 2GB machine, too and often pretty loaded so it probably isn’t a fundamental XP problem.
Only one question left – do you use any scanner software to import pictures into PS? It’s for that could be a problem in cases where virus scanners monitor network connections and you’ve a scanner connected via Firewire.
It might just be something simple and stupid in the end — as usual 😎 Juergen
