F-Secure and a bunch of crap

I have a quick question about F-Secure. I haven't used this particular virus
detection program, but heard that it is a very good one. I just installed
the program, and now it seems that my computer has slowed down to a crawl.
Before installing it, I did a check on the processes running, and it was
nice and clean... after installing it I have about a dozen processes
running, many of which appear to me to be some sort of spyware or tracking
software, such as Backweb IAdHide.. not to mention at least a dozen
processes running that start with the FS*

Is this normal behaviour for F-Secure? I've heard that F-Secure doesn't have
any kind of spyware or anything, but looking at my Task Manager, it sure
does seem to have A LOT of stuff running... and that Backweb thing REALLY
worries me...

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John Vogel

It runs a bunch of stuff alright, but I haven't seen it
drag any of our systems down. We don't run Backweb
because our updates come from a local server. There
are configs that can really take a bite out of access time
if they are enabled .. esp involving cdroms and zip drives.
Also, on boot up, it is going to phone home for updates.
That is slow sometimes .. up to a minute, but then it
gets happy and things speed up. One thing for sure ..
don't ever mess with trying to uninstall it. It burrows
deep, and that can make a big mess. You should probably email their tech
support about speed problems.

johns

johns

John Vogel wrote:
> I have a quick question about F-Secure. I haven't used this particular virus
> detection program, but heard that it is a very good one. I just installed
> the program, and now it seems that my computer has slowed down to a crawl.
> Before installing it, I did a check on the processes running, and it was
> nice and clean... after installing it I have about a dozen processes
> running, many of which appear to me to be some sort of spyware or tracking
> software, such as Backweb IAdHide.. not to mention at least a dozen
> processes running that start with the FS*
>
> Is this normal behaviour for F-Secure? I've heard that F-Secure doesn't have
> any kind of spyware or anything, but looking at my Task Manager, it sure
> does seem to have A LOT of stuff running... and that Backweb thing REALLY
> worries me...

it uses Backweb to get AV updates

Martin

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:59:15 -0400, "John Vogel"
<> wrote:

>I have a quick question about F-Secure.

What version of F-Secure precisely? Are we talking about F-Secure
Anti-Virus 2004, F-Secure Internet Security 2004 or F-Secure
Anti-Virus Client Security?

>I haven't used this particular virus
>detection program, but heard that it is a very good one. I just installed
>the program, and now it seems that my computer has slowed down to a crawl.
>Before installing it, I did a check on the processes running, and it was
>nice and clean... after installing it I have about a dozen processes
>running, many of which appear to me to be some sort of spyware or tracking
>software, such as Backweb IAdHide.. not to mention at least a dozen
>processes running that start with the FS*
>
>Is this normal behaviour for F-Secure? I've heard that F-Secure doesn't have
>any kind of spyware or anything, but looking at my Task Manager, it sure
>does seem to have A LOT of stuff running... and that Backweb thing REALLY
>worries me...

F-Secure uses Backweb to deliver virus definition updates, program
updates and subscription management depending on which of their
products you're using.
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
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Jeffrey A. Setaro

typed:Jeffrey A. Setaro wrote
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:59:15 -0400, "John Vogel"
> <> wrote:

Cut..

>> Jeff Setaro
> jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net
> http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
> PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

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