I like control of my virus protection, and all of this vague "automatic" protection is really annoying, so I generally leave all options and services disabled, and then just run the scans manually and periodically. Unfortunately with Symantec Client Security Solution, as well as the Norton suite, disabling them makes startup of winxp unbearably and unnecessarily slow. Startup just sits at the black screen after login and before the desktop appears for literally minutes.
The solution is uninstalling all Symantec products. Disabling all of the Symantec startup services and executables doesn't even help, the control panel must have some routines that run that cannot be stopped. Needless to say, I'll never be using Symantec "security" solutions again. After uninstallation, winxp startup is fast as ever.
Posted by Mike at September 15, 2007 08:11 PM