Reodor
10-29-2007, 08:14 AM
I stripped even more out of my lap-top to eliminate whatever might be 'disturbing' PCTIS except McAfee Siteadvisor. That should atleast not inflict on anything at system idle, I thought.
But what is really happening every 5 second is a bit funny.
- McAfee siteadvisor reacts - pctsSvc.exe responds with about 20% CPU activity as a result of McAfee.
Turn 'OFF' file guard -it stops the CPU activity, SAService.exe is still activated every 5 sec.
This made me more curious and I went to my Yahoo mail.Does not normally use the lap-top there, but everytime Yahoo mail did an automatic check for new mails, pctsSvc peaked up at the most to 90+%, new mails or not - it almost blocked the system. Went off the net and opened a picture file and set it on slide-show. Same crazy behavior every time a new pic was loaded.
I think I have a moskito hunting elephant onboard. Is it really needed for fileguard to filter through every file in move that has not been changed whenever it is opened? This is where the major slowdown is when it comes to file opening and use even when the comp is off net.
Turn it 'off' manually whenever Im not at the net is not an option, opening the GUI is a timeconsuming operation by itself.
Perhaps a 'setting' in the siteguard with 'turn off automatically when IE/Firefox/... is not active' might be an option?
But what is really happening every 5 second is a bit funny.
- McAfee siteadvisor reacts - pctsSvc.exe responds with about 20% CPU activity as a result of McAfee.
Turn 'OFF' file guard -it stops the CPU activity, SAService.exe is still activated every 5 sec.
This made me more curious and I went to my Yahoo mail.Does not normally use the lap-top there, but everytime Yahoo mail did an automatic check for new mails, pctsSvc peaked up at the most to 90+%, new mails or not - it almost blocked the system. Went off the net and opened a picture file and set it on slide-show. Same crazy behavior every time a new pic was loaded.
I think I have a moskito hunting elephant onboard. Is it really needed for fileguard to filter through every file in move that has not been changed whenever it is opened? This is where the major slowdown is when it comes to file opening and use even when the comp is off net.
Turn it 'off' manually whenever Im not at the net is not an option, opening the GUI is a timeconsuming operation by itself.
Perhaps a 'setting' in the siteguard with 'turn off automatically when IE/Firefox/... is not active' might be an option?