Sallah: [catches def and points to dead server] Bad defs.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote:
> It is/was a Vipre issue. Force a defs update and you'll be good. Must
> have been a bad def.
>
> >>> "Luke" <tesla...@gmail.com> 5/7/2010 10:56 AM >>>
>
> The Network Administrator and I have been working on this all morning.
> Since about 7:00AM random machines on the Local Network have been slipping
> into and out of a random state of unresponsiveness ("Freezing").
>
> The symptoms are pretty serious - I have seen it take up to 5 minutes to
> bring an already open window from the background to the foreground on client
> machines - and there are servers that are so unresponsive that I am not even
> able to log into them (enter Username and Password and nothing happens for
> the next 30min.). We have had to cold boot one server 3 times in the past
> hour!
>
> This problem is not specific to any user, profile, machine, OS, network
> switch, etc. - at least from what we have been able to Identify. So far it
> has affected Windows 7, XP and Server 2003. However, this issue is not
> affecting everyone on the network. My Colleague sitting right next to me has
> been having all kinds of trouble with his PC and I have not.
>
> We have found that cold booting the affected machines does help a little or
> at least for a while, but more often than not the machine will just return
> to its unresponsive state after a few minutes. On the machines that I have
> that are accessible I am attempting scan with Vipre.
>
> We are seriously starting to suspect that Vipre is doing something (in the
> background that we cant see) that is actually causing all this. We
> completely removed Vipre from one PC that was having trouble and it seemed
> to fix the problem. The PC has been running fine since.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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