McAfee Virus Scanner and Slow INI File Processing

Keywords: 	  McAfee AV 4.5 Slow INI File Processing

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From one of our users:

I have found what we believe to be the cause of our problem (slow INI file processing on different OS's).

The machines experiencing the extremely slow INI processing times were found to be running McAfee AV 4.5.

This version of the product is configured by McAfee to check INI files for viruses by default. After removing the INI extension form McAfee, we were able to attain times of approximately 6 seconds on machines (Compaq M700 700Mhz laptop) that had been taking approximately 2 minutes to complete previously.

We have chosen to use a different extension for our INI files and that also seems to have resolved the problem without having to change the McAfee configuration.

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Article ID:   W14736

Filename:   McAfee Virus Scanner and INI files.txt