Norton Antivirus suddenly acts strange?

[wellofsouls]

this is my company's laptop preinstalled with Norton Antivirus, and it didn't cause me any problem until some time last week. Now every time I unzip a file with the Windows XP integrated zip function, it takes a LONG time and the unzip dialog becomes unresponsive. When I open the task manager, I see the process NAVW32.EXE popping up and disappear constantly taking 99% CPU, it seems Norton Antivirus is beginning a new NAVW32.EXE process for each file extracted from the zip file, scan it, exit the process, and repeat, which makes unzip an archive with many files very slow.

It's very strange since I didn't recall this kind of behavior before, or at least the speed of unzipping files not nearly this slow a couple weeks ago, and I didn't change any settings in NAV, so anyone have any idea what might caused it to suddenly slow down unzip considerably? :unsure:

[cork1958]

I know you say it's the comapny's laptop, but you REALLY need to talk them into uninstalling that POS!

Only software ever written that is worse than Norton's is AOHELL's crap!!

Sounds like Norton is set to scan EVERY file thoroughly, which usually isn't bad, but, we're talking Norton here!! :x

[RadishTM Veteran]

Disable compressed file scanning in the options.

Radish?

[wellofsouls]

the strange thing is that before last week, it was not nearly this bad, and I didn't change anything in NAV. I guess maybe it's one of the updates :shifty: