Re: BitDefender again

2009-09-10 Thread Michael Kairys
But can anyone say more about Dave Korn's comment that it could "horribly frag your heap and bork your maximum allocatable memory limit"? Can I test this somehow? Guess I'll just go with it then... :) In the interim I've tried out a few other "leading" AV products: Avria, Nod32, and Kaspersky

Re: BitDefender again

2009-09-03 Thread Michael Kairys
"Michael Kairys" wrote in message news:h7j7ha$47...@ger.gmane.org... Or you can go the easy route, and follow the instructions they have provided to rebase cygwin.dll. I shall try their instructions and report back. (There must be other BitDefender users similarily inconvenienced by version

Re: BitDefender again

2009-09-01 Thread Michael Kairys
Or you can go the easy route, and follow the instructions they have provided to rebase cygwin.dll. I shall try their instructions and report back. (There must be other BitDefender users similarily inconvenienced by version 2010 :) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html F

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Smith
"Michael Kairys" wrote in message news:h73co7$tt...@ger.gmane.org... Thanks for the replies... the suggestion to use a base address in the 0x3500 area (or indeed any of the others they mentioned) is going to horribly frag your heap and bork your maximum allocatable memory limit, isn't

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-28 Thread Wilfried
"Michael Kairys" wrote: > > (3) http://www.f-prot.com > > Thanks for the suggestion... Seems some reviews give them low marks on > detection rates: > http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug09.jpg > http://www.virus-centre.com/ > > ... and some low marks on features (19 out of 20

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Kairys
(3) http://www.f-prot.com Thanks for the suggestion... Seems some reviews give them low marks on detection rates: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug09.jpg http://www.virus-centre.com/ ... and some low marks on features (19 out of 20): http://anti-virus-software-review.topt

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-26 Thread Wilfried
"Michael Kairys" wrote: > Thanks for the replies... > > > the suggestion to use a base address in the 0x3500 area (or indeed > > any of the others they mentioned) is going to horribly frag your heap and > > bork > > your maximum allocatable memory limit, isn't it? > > I don't know. How wou

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Kairys
Thanks for the replies... the suggestion to use a base address in the 0x3500 area (or indeed any of the others they mentioned) is going to horribly frag your heap and bork your maximum allocatable memory limit, isn't it? I don't know. How would I tell? Wonder if it wouldn't work just

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-26 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:09:52PM -0400, Michael Kairys wrote: >> BitDefender AntiVirus 2009 and Cygwin got along fine, but when I upgraded to >> 2010 all my Cygwin-based apps started crashing. If I turn off their "Active >> Virus Control" the problem goes away. >> >>

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:09:52PM -0400, Michael Kairys wrote: >BitDefender AntiVirus 2009 and Cygwin got along fine, but when I upgraded to >2010 all my Cygwin-based apps started crashing. If I turn off their "Active >Virus Control" the problem goes away. > >They offer this advice: > >=

BitDefender again

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Kairys
BitDefender AntiVirus 2009 and Cygwin got along fine, but when I upgraded to 2010 all my Cygwin-based apps started crashing. If I turn off their "Active Virus Control" the problem goes away. They offer this advice: = There is an incompatibility between cygwi