Performance issues with MS Office and Charter High-Speed Security Suite (aka F-Secure)

Hello,

I've switched my AV software to the Charter High-Speed Security Suite (which
is just F-Secure Internet Security Suite) since my NAV subscription recently
expired and Charter provides this software free of charge.

Unfortunately there has been some cost in the form of nagging performance
problems the first time any MS-Office (Office 2000 is what I was using at
the time) app has been opened. For example, on a clean boot when I start
Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. the system will come to a near grinding halt
until I "unload" the AV software from the icon tray. It takes several
minutes to complete the operation but is worth it since I don't like doing
hard power downs. This behavior has happened ever since the new AV software
has been installed earlier this year.

In light of this problem I reloaded my whole system (formatted drives and
all). The first thing I installed was F-Secure and things seemed to be
going OK. Then when I started to install (yes install) MS Office 2003
things started to drag until I unloaded the AV software. So I reloaded the
system, upgraded Office, and still saw the same problem.

I've checked the task manager when these spells occur and don't see anything
pegging CPU or memory so am at a loss to explain what's going on.

So far I haven't gotten any response to my inquiry on the F-Secure site and
was wondering if anyone in the ether has experienced something similar and
could provide some clues. Also are there other utils that might tell me
more specifically why the performance is dragging since task manager
doesn't?

If you want to reply via email, please remove the _XX_ in my addr.

Thanks!
Mike

I would look in F-Prot's various settings for anything like an Office
plug-in or add-in or scan or whatever and disable it.

Also, if you have WinXP SP2, it seems you may need a "support package" for
F-Secure, too. See
http://support.f-secure.it/ita/corpo...al/xpsp2.shtml

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

"Mike Fink" wrote in message
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Hello,

I've switched my AV software to the Charter High-Speed Security Suite
(which
is just F-Secure Internet Security Suite) since my NAV subscription
recently
expired and Charter provides this software free of charge.

Unfortunately there has been some cost in the form of nagging performance
problems the first time any MS-Office (Office 2000 is what I was using at
the time) app has been opened. For example, on a clean boot when I start
Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. the system will come to a near grinding halt
until I "unload" the AV software from the icon tray. It takes several
minutes to complete the operation but is worth it since I don't like doing
hard power downs. This behavior has happened ever since the new AV
software
has been installed earlier this year.

In light of this problem I reloaded my whole system (formatted drives and
all). The first thing I installed was F-Secure and things seemed to be
going OK. Then when I started to install (yes install) MS Office 2003
things started to drag until I unloaded the AV software. So I reloaded
the
system, upgraded Office, and still saw the same problem.

I've checked the task manager when these spells occur and don't see
anything
pegging CPU or memory so am at a loss to explain what's going on.

So far I haven't gotten any response to my inquiry on the F-Secure site
and
was wondering if anyone in the ether has experienced something similar and
could provide some clues. Also are there other utils that might tell me
more specifically why the performance is dragging since task manager
doesn't?

If you want to reply via email, please remove the _XX_ in my addr.

Thanks!
Mike

No problems here using F-Secure
ie using the f-secure office plugin does give some delay in opening any
office doc, but I dont believe it any more than any office av plugin

"Mike Fink" wrote in message
news
Hello,

I've switched my AV software to the Charter High-Speed Security Suite
(which
is just F-Secure Internet Security Suite) since my NAV subscription
recently
expired and Charter provides this software free of charge.

Unfortunately there has been some cost in the form of nagging performance
problems the first time any MS-Office (Office 2000 is what I was using at
the time) app has been opened. For example, on a clean boot when I start
Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. the system will come to a near grinding halt
until I "unload" the AV software from the icon tray. It takes several
minutes to complete the operation but is worth it since I don't like doing
hard power downs. This behavior has happened ever since the new AV
software
has been installed earlier this year.

In light of this problem I reloaded my whole system (formatted drives and
all). The first thing I installed was F-Secure and things seemed to be
going OK. Then when I started to install (yes install) MS Office 2003
things started to drag until I unloaded the AV software. So I reloaded
the
system, upgraded Office, and still saw the same problem.

I've checked the task manager when these spells occur and don't see
anything
pegging CPU or memory so am at a loss to explain what's going on.

So far I haven't gotten any response to my inquiry on the F-Secure site
and
was wondering if anyone in the ether has experienced something similar and
could provide some clues. Also are there other utils that might tell me
more specifically why the performance is dragging since task manager
doesn't?

If you want to reply via email, please remove the _XX_ in my addr.

Thanks!
Mike