On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:33:02 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:35:37 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Jim Henderson
wrote: If we want people to adopt Linux, we have to not tell them "so this thing you did with Windows automatically? You need to do it manually now. No, you say you don't need to do that at all any more, and you get the 30% resources you were devoting to on-demand virus scanning back.
I don't know of ANY platform where on-access scanning takes 30% of the system's resources. If that's the state of things on Linux, then there's an architectural problem in how it's being done.
Jim
Way back in the dark ages, when I was using DOS on an XT clone at work, the network login forced a virus scan at boot up. This made my computer unusable for about a half hour!
So, we've got one example of a poorly implemented solution from back in the dark ages. Back in the dark ages, I had to automate scanning boot diskettes. What you are describing also is not On Access Scanning, but a forced system scan that prevented anything else from going. We're talking about OAS. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org