SCAN32.exe eating CPU time of its own accord

When I was blackmailed into using McCrappee by my uni's IT people (or lose 'net access), I ran into a pernicious problem: when gaming (or doing something else that liked a lot of processor time), I noticed that it stuttered oddly. Being the inquisitive person that I am, I fired up the task manager and saw (to my surprise) that SCAN32.exe was eating up about 30% of my CPU time... and this is after I shut the activescan off.

I've had a virus-scan take over twelve hours because the SCAN32.exe (started by SYSTEM) was stealing processor time from SCAN32.exe (started by my username) and I didn't realize it.

And short of nuking the process every time it crops up, I can't find a way to stop it. And no, it isn't autoloaded at startup, either.

%^$# you, McCrappee.

EDIT: WinXP SP2 box, running the corporate version of McCrappee.

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Originally Posted by 10of40

When I was blackmailed into using McCrappee by my uni's IT people (or lose 'net access), I ran into a pernicious problem: when gaming (or doing something else that liked a lot of processor time), I noticed that it stuttered oddly. Being the inquisitive person that I am, I fired up the task manager and saw (to my surprise) that SCAN32.exe was eating up about 30% of my CPU time... and this is after I shut the activescan off.

I've had a virus-scan take over twelve hours because the SCAN32.exe (started by SYSTEM) was stealing processor time from SCAN32.exe (started by my username) and I didn't realize it.

And short of nuking the process every time it crops up, I can't find a way to stop it. And no, it isn't autoloaded at startup, either.

%^$# you, McCrappee.

EDIT: WinXP SP2 box, running the corporate version of McCrappee.

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is this a machine for work then?

What version of McAfee are you using? Which engine?

See what settings the scan has(you didn't say if this is at work). Anyway, make sure it's not scanning network drives.