Where I work we are forced to use Symantec Endpoint Protection of all of our machines.
And it suuuucks.
On a very regular basis, it seems to get instructions from the 'mothership' (the people that tell us to use it) and it crashes our poor P4 512 RAM machines. It makes a login that takes a reasonable minute or two stretch into a 10-15 minute ordeal. And that's without any programs like Outlook or anything launching.
Most of our users don't know how to respond and just think we have really crappy machines. They're the best we can afford and before you put that crap (Symantec) on there, they work really well! Especially for Office 2007 and web browsing which are their primary functions.
Often there's a RTVscan that's going crazy taking 50%+ percent of the CPU and usually 2 or 3 svhost.exe that are related to it taking 60 or 70 megs of memory apiece. Between the 3 or 4 processes, almost all the ram and CPU is gone.
This happens again and again. Is there ANYTHING that we can do on our end to make things more tolerable that's free? The machines are too old to be worth putting 2 gigs or RAM into and we can't afford to buy new machines (educational institute).
Thanks for any suggestions!
And it suuuucks.
On a very regular basis, it seems to get instructions from the 'mothership' (the people that tell us to use it) and it crashes our poor P4 512 RAM machines. It makes a login that takes a reasonable minute or two stretch into a 10-15 minute ordeal. And that's without any programs like Outlook or anything launching.
Most of our users don't know how to respond and just think we have really crappy machines. They're the best we can afford and before you put that crap (Symantec) on there, they work really well! Especially for Office 2007 and web browsing which are their primary functions.
Often there's a RTVscan that's going crazy taking 50%+ percent of the CPU and usually 2 or 3 svhost.exe that are related to it taking 60 or 70 megs of memory apiece. Between the 3 or 4 processes, almost all the ram and CPU is gone.
This happens again and again. Is there ANYTHING that we can do on our end to make things more tolerable that's free? The machines are too old to be worth putting 2 gigs or RAM into and we can't afford to buy new machines (educational institute).
Thanks for any suggestions!
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