We have a, shall we say, enthusiastically vigilant IT staff at work. Among other things, our computers are scanned 6 times a week for malware. I haven't worked out what scans what when, but there are at least 3 scans done as soon as the PC boots up and there are 3 that kick in right at noon. Leaving aside this kind of scanning frequency for a second, the problem we encounter is that Symantec's scanners max out CPU usage for about 90 minutes for each scan. It doesn't seem to matter how powerful the system is, the CPU usage is always 100%. So I'm left to conclude that the scanners are resource hogs and will take whatever's available.
If anyone knows of a task throttler that can force these gluttons to only devour 50% of my system resources, let me know. Right now, I just kill the processes as soon as they kick in. That's right, IT dudes: no scanning here. The alternative is for me to just pull the plug every time it kicks in. :)
Back to the frequency of scanning issue, am I alone in thinking this is a little excessive?
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