Original question:
> I know there are problems running antivirus programs with ArcView and I
> always disable Norton when I'm running AV. Now our company has installed
> Norton Corporate Edition and claim I won't have these problems. As they
are
> mainly hardware, not software, techs (they don't even know what AV is), I
> thought I'd ask the list their experiences running Norton Antivirus
> Corporate Edition and ArcView (3.1).

The majority of the responses indicate that the only possible problem may be
a slowdown in AV which can be avoided by excluding the AV directory/files
from Norton's scan.

Bradley Rawlings and David Stinchcomb said they have had no problems with
Norton 2000 (regular edition) and AV 3.1. Mickey Hayden, Steven Howell, Dave
Hoehne, Mary Howes, Eric Josephson, Clifford Cook and Mike Lent all reported
using Norton Corporate Edition with AV 3.1 and/or 3.2a on Windows NT 4.0
and/or Windows 2000 with little or no problems. Mike stated that the
problems he had with the regular Norton went away when he switched to CE.

I have posted the responses from Eric and Cliff as the solution to avoiding
any slowdowns in AV due to Norton CE:

Eric wrote: "We ran into problems running ArcView and Norton Corporate
edition when Norton was set to scan every file moving across the network.
The meant the huge amounts of GIS data were being scanned every time the map
frame changed or we tried to pan and zoom, which ground things pretty much
to a halt.  We changed the settings on Norton to a less restrictive setting,
and everything
seems to work fine now."

Cliff wrote "We switched to Norton Corporate recently.  As for ArcView
itself, so far so good.  One big hitch at the beginning - our somewhat
clueless Network Admin set up Corporate Edition to scan every file moved
over the LAN/WAN, including those from our own servers being served to
desktop PCs and workstations.  Everything slowed to crawl until I complained
along with the Police Dept.  Once Norton Corporate was changed only to scan
downloaded files from the Net, email and disk drives the problem
disappeared.  Maybe it helped that the cops have guns." AH HAH!

As a disclaimer, I must pass along the warning that many gave me regarding
the exclusion of any directories/files from an antivirus scan. Needless to
say, you will have a weakness in your defenses.

Lisa Montiel
Senior Research Specialist
Rockefeller Institute of Government
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