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I also add quite a few excludes to the file list, preventing the scanning of source code and txt files. html extension is also beyond me, as it was raw text.ДЇor my own machines I use a variety - I believe that a mixture is a good thing, if one package misses something bad, and it starts to spread on the network, hopefully one of the other packages will spot it and alert me to its presence. His machine had been bought new, so why it was set to log by default is beyond me. I added the file to the AV exclude list, and weeeee, back up to speed again! A bit of digging found the switch to turn off the wifi debug log in the Lenovo access connections package and I deleted the file.

By the time I got to investigate, the file was 5meg! Initially this wasn't an issue as the file was small. Any change to that was getting the attention of the AV and forcing it to scan the file. It turns out that from the day my brother got his laptop, all his wifi activity was being logged to the debug file (not the raw packet data, but still pretty detailed, and very frequently updated), which Lenovo had decided to give a. I found both AV packages were really interested in one html file. So I decided to have a look at exactly what the antivirus was doing using some of the sysinternals (now microsoft) process explorer tools.

Tried AVAST, same thing happened, wifi caused the machine to bog down. Removed AVG, the machine worked fine on the wifi. Sure enough, I tried it, and cabled LAN was fine, but as soon as wifi was started up, it connected to the LAN, but the machine just bogged down. Earlier this year my brother complained that his Lenovo laptop, which has been working perfectly well, was unusable on his wifi network. Sometimes it's not the anti-virus that is to be blamed. Good luck selling it 'cause very few consumers will 'upgrade' without seeing new features they (mostly) don't need. Imagine: a s/w industry that releases new versions with the promise that 'nothing added but we've removed all that legacy code that made it run like a pig'.

Yes, I'm frustrated with my AV dragging my machine down - but no more than Office et al for doing the same! You pays your money and you takes your choice. Of course, this means we should consider a more secure environment - but we all know that every time Windows gets more security conscious, users bypass the model because it's a pain to live with! Perhaps the best way to reduce the need for complex AV is to reduce the chances of the bad guys to get in and do something.

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Office, every print-driver I've ever seen, WiFi helper apps (50Mb+ for the drivers for mine? Come on.)

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If it doesn't run as FredBloggs you haven't got it working yet.ДЄll software does, doesn't it? In general the motivation to upgrade to the new version of anything is driven by new features rather than cleaning-up and enhancing the raw performance of the existing version - cf. Definitely should have the FredBloggs/FBAdmin setup. You justify this by saying it's not about not trusting him to run his own computer, but _protecting_ him against zero-day malware attacks.Дevelopers running as local admin all the time are a menace - it's this practice which is responsible for half their crap not working properly for limited users once they release it. You will of course need to use Group Policy to control the local admin group so that FBAdmin can't add FredBloggs to the local admins group.

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He cannot claim he doesn't have full control of his box because he does, just not when wearing his network user hat. He can use FBAdmin, possibly via runas, when he needs to do admin-y things. FBAdmin is either a local account on the box or a domain account that is a member of no groups beyond Domain Users and a group called 'Local Access Only' which has deny privs on all shared libraries, printers etc.ДЇred therefore _has_ to use the FredBloggs domain user account to access network resources. The solution with 'need admin access' people is two accounts.