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Thread ID: 27795	2002-12-03 04:12:00	Greedy NAV	Susan B (19)	Press F1

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102940	2002-12-03 04:12:00	I know I 've seen posts on here before about how resource hungry Norton Antivirus is, but even so I've been amazed at just how much. After installing NAV 2002 and finally getting it all updated I noticed that this Beast's "busy" light was constantly flat out and the CPU usage was pretty much fixed on 80-100% at all times. It didn't occur to me that it was NAV until quite a bit of investigation and elimination but disabling NAV has made a HUGE difference. Now the CPU activity is 18-40% with nine IE windows and OE open - plus AVG running. Why is NAV so greedy? What the heck is it doing all the time??? AVG doesn't do it.....	Susan B (19)
102941	2002-12-03 04:33:00	It's protecting you from nasty viruses, Susan :D Ever heard of software bloat? It's a sort of viral infection. It's spread by marketing departments of software houses. Perhaps we need software to protect us from it.	Graham L (2)
102942	2002-12-03 04:35:00	Mines enabled and never gets off 0% CPU and that on a 1GHz machine. Maybe you have a background task running all the time that scans the HD every so many minutes. I just scan mine once a month manually and leave the auto protect to look after itthe rest of the time. Nothing has ever slipped by.	Big John (551)
102943	2002-12-03 04:52:00	well my NAV2002 uses no CPU (7meg ram) unless I'm actively scanning something.	-=JM=- (16)
102944	2002-12-03 05:03:00	Susan, While i do think NAV is a tad greedy, i'm running NAV2002 on a 98SE 450meg machine and it is nowhere near as resourse hungry as what you are experiancing. If it was i wouldn't be able to do anything else! There must be something in the way you have set it up that is making it do some totally unneeded task day in day out. Mine just does the total system scan once a week and slows down the intake of new stuff, like email etc. Even during the system scan which takes hours i can still do lighter tasks without bother. .Clueless	Clueless (181)
102945	2002-12-03 05:05:00	This is really puzzling me. Like I said, I've got NAV disabled now and the CPU usage hovers between 21-25% when I'm not doing anything. With NAV enabled it is 80% and more. I've been through the settings with a fine-toothed comb and can't see anything to change but surely I must be missing something? In Task Manager's Processes NAVAPW32.EXE is hogging 5,696K just sitting there with NAV disabled - almost as much as Outpost at 8,476K which is active. There must be something else going on, but what? I'll have a look around the web later and see what I can find.	Susan B (19)
102946	2002-12-03 05:57:00	Susan, I'd say that something is bugging NAV, or rather NAV is busy checking something out. I have NAV running all the time and my CPU load rarely goes over 20%, both with NAV 2002 and now NAV2003. Either it's found something it doesn't like and is constantly checking it out, or there's a problem with it :) Mike.	Mike (15)
102947	2002-12-03 05:58:00	Susan my P4 2 GHz on Win XP runs between 0% and 7%, running McAfee AV You certainly must have something unwanted running?	godfather (25)
102948	2002-12-03 07:36:00	Maybe you want to try it again Susan. That was not right for it to use that much. Mine can get up to 99% while scanning. Are you sure it wasn't doing a scan at the time ?	-=JM=- (16)
102949	2002-12-03 08:27:00	I don't know what the thing was doing. All I know is that it goes berserk. :-( Pretty sure it didn't do this when first installed, only just noticed it last night when the "busy" LED light seemed to be on all the time. That's when I checked the CPU usage and nearly had kittens. Something is definitely not right. Not having much luck sorting out msconfig to try and turn NAV off completely either - it still loads some bits and pieces even when disabled. And I can't find an option in AVG to disable that. msconfig in Win XP is not as user friendly as Win 98's one. Right now a reformat is looking very tempting..... :-(	Susan B (19)
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