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Hi All:

I am running a Win2K Pro 2GZ P4 system, McAfee Virus scan disabled, I have
no firewall (That I am aware of), no router, and have just installed a copy
of the latest Trojan Hunter 3.8.

When doing the live update, the message says "Preparing to Connect";
"Hostname lookup successful", then the CPU Usage skyrockets to 100% and I
cannot close the Live Update unless I use CTL+ALT+DEL.

I observe the exact same behavior when trying to connect to Swat-It's
version of the auto update feature. TCPView shows that these Live Updates
never made any attempt to connect.

I can connect to the internet ok. My McAfee live update works fine. I
have deleted the hosts file, and tried everything I can think of.
Everything works except for the live update features of the two trojan
scanner update features.

Swat-it and Trojanhunter both work fine, and I have no problem with these
live update features on my other PC.

TCPView shows: "SwatItPro.exe:2916 TCP 9925k03:1053
rapidupdates.swatit.org:http" on my other PC using the same ISP.

Any suggestions would be very appreciated and helpful.

Many Thanks in Advance
Paul

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:54:18 GMT, Paul Keene wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> I am running a Win2K Pro 2GZ P4 system, McAfee Virus scan disabled, I have
> no firewall (That I am aware of), no router, and have just installed a copy
> of the latest Trojan Hunter 3.8.

Why would you have a virus scanner, then disable it so that it cannot do
its job?

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Ben <galtar1-barcelona@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
news:1v9zin3qn241s$.1dwnye0gzraym.dlg@40tude.net:

> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:54:18 GMT, Paul Keene wrote:
>
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I am running a Win2K Pro 2GZ P4 system, McAfee Virus scan disabled, I
>> have no firewall (That I am aware of), no router, and have just
>> installed a copy of the latest Trojan Hunter 3.8.
>
> Why would you have a virus scanner, then disable it so that it cannot
> do its job?
>

To make sure the virus scanner isn't interfering preventing a connection.

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:31:52 GMT, CW wrote:

> Ben <galtar1-barcelona@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> news:1v9zin3qn241s$.1dwnye0gzraym.dlg@40tude.net:
>
>> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:54:18 GMT, Paul Keene wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> I am running a Win2K Pro 2GZ P4 system, McAfee Virus scan disabled, I
>>> have no firewall (That I am aware of), no router, and have just
>>> installed a copy of the latest Trojan Hunter 3.8.
>>
>> Why would you have a virus scanner, then disable it so that it cannot
>> do its job?
>>
>
> To make sure the virus scanner isn't interfering preventing a connection.

forgive me, I have a thing about disabled scanners after I received a
serious slap because my son did the same thing