RE: [Fed-Talk] DOJ Standards
RE: [Fed-Talk] DOJ Standards
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] DOJ Standards
- From: Rex Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:41:13 -0700
At 2:07 PM -0400 9/2/09, Wade, Justin CTR OSD PA wrote:
>You can configure Symantec NOT to brick the machine. ONLY if you use it for
>AV. Wouldn't recommend the other stuff ;-)
In my experience SAV 10 will brick a Mac for minutes to days.
Given the low threat to Macs, here's what I recommend for Symantec Norton
AntiVirus 10.x settings to speed up your Mac, yet provide some protection:
- Disable Auto-Protect. Use scheduled scans instead.
- Schedule daily scans for evenings after you leave work.
Leave your Mac on, let SAV run overnight. Not "green".
- Do not scan compressed files.
This is probably the single biggest win.
Until I turned off compressed file scanning, Friday night scans sometimes
would not finish by Tuesday morning of three day weekends! This was on a
2x2.7 GHz G5 tower with less than 30 GB total file storage.
- Quarantine files that cannot be repaired.
Gives you a fighting chance to retrieve a false positive, which is many
times more likely than a true positive.
We haven't rolled out SAV 11 yet, maybe that's much better.
-- Rex Sanders, USGS
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