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Old October 22nd 12, 09:36 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
charlie[_2_]
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On 10/21/2012 10:44 PM, Joe Morris wrote:
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message
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I think you can cross Symantec's AV prog off the list bc I use
Avast and Symantec's never been installed on this sys.


Thanks for the data point, although we may have been seeing the same failure
symptoms but the cause was different. In our shop I've not seen the problem
systems *not* recover cleanly on the first reboot. This isn't a frequent
issue, but it happens frequently enough that I put the guidance into our
RightAnswers database.

And we have had a couple of incidents involving Symantic AV...not
necessarily the fault of SEP but it's got hooks in odd (and poorly
documented) corners of the system, and can step on *other* programs that
also hook into the kernel, such as Checkpoint FDE and Citrix XenDesktop.

Joe


I've run across this behavior on exactly two machines.
One, a HP Laptop running Vista Ultimate (two core processor), and the
other a win7 Phenom II x4 P/C.

In both cases .net plus updates to it were the ultimate culprit.
One of the systems had later .net releases, but the early ones were not
present. The other had had parts of the .net software removed as part of
an attempt to determine what was slowing the machine down, sometimes to
a crawl.

The Phenom based system was time consuming to diagnose, due to the
number of updates that were involved, and "hanging".

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