Killing all Norton System Works processes (and restarting later)

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Thomas G. Marshall

Once in a while, I am doing something very cpu intensive and would like to
shut down [all of] NSW. Simply asking for auto-protect to disable doesn't
seem to do the trick since the worm protection seems to stay on.

I can easily write a simple script to kill all the processes, but in order
to relaunch them all properly I would probably have to log in again (?) Is
this true? Or is there a special way to fire up NSW afterward that would
replace all the processes properly?

Furthermore, is there somewhere a cleaner alternative to this, perhaps a 3rd
party utility?

Thanks

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(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Once in a while, I am doing something very cpu intensive and would
like to shut down [all of] NSW. Simply asking for auto-protect to
disable doesn't seem to do the trick since the worm protection seems
to stay on.
snip <
is there somewhere a cleaner alternative to this,
perhaps a 3rd party utility?
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Yes,I think it is called NOD32
max
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Max Wachtel said something like:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Once in a while, I am doing something very cpu intensive and would
like to shut down [all of] NSW. Simply asking for auto-protect to
disable doesn't seem to do the trick since the worm protection seems
to stay on.
snip <
is there somewhere a cleaner alternative to this,
perhaps a 3rd party utility?
Click to expand...
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Yes,I think it is called NOD32
max
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lol. punk. :)

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a
link followed by an unlink.
 
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Max Wachtel said something like:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Once in a while, I am doing something very cpu intensive and would
like to shut down [all of] NSW. Simply asking for auto-protect to
disable doesn't seem to do the trick since the worm protection
seems to stay on.
snip <
is there somewhere a cleaner alternative to this,
perhaps a 3rd party utility?
Click to expand...
******************Reply Separator*************************

Yes,I think it is called NOD32
max
Click to expand...

lol. punk. :)
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Sorry,I couldn't help myself ;)
funny is funny
I try to stay away from anything that has Norton in the name.
max
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Max Wachtel said:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Max Wachtel said something like:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Marshall on 12/15/2005 in <toqof.3798$pF.399@trndny08> after much
thought,came up with this jewel:


Once in a while, I am doing something very cpu intensive and would
like to shut down [all of] NSW. Simply asking for auto-protect to
disable doesn't seem to do the trick since the worm protection
seems to stay on.
snip <
is there somewhere a cleaner alternative to this,
perhaps a 3rd party utility?

******************Reply Separator*************************

Yes,I think it is called NOD32
max
Click to expand...

lol. punk. :)
Click to expand...

Sorry,I couldn't help myself ;)
funny is funny
I try to stay away from anything that has Norton in the name.
max
Click to expand...

Totally agree. Norton isn't exactly resource friendly (or PC friendly for
that matter!!).
 
Tony said something like:
Max Wachtel said:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Max Wachtel said something like:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Marshall on 12/15/2005 in <toqof.3798$pF.399@trndny08> after much
thought,came up with this jewel:


Once in a while, I am doing something very cpu intensive and would
like to shut down [all of] NSW. Simply asking for auto-protect to
disable doesn't seem to do the trick since the worm protection
seems to stay on.
snip <
is there somewhere a cleaner alternative to this,
perhaps a 3rd party utility?

******************Reply Separator*************************

Yes,I think it is called NOD32
max

lol. punk. :)
Click to expand...

Sorry,I couldn't help myself ;)
funny is funny
I try to stay away from anything that has Norton in the name.
max
Click to expand...

Totally agree. Norton isn't exactly resource friendly (or PC friendly for
that matter!!).
Click to expand...

Yeah, I get that from a lot of folks. I am a little worried about switching
to an unknown though.
 
Thomas G. Marshall said:
Tony said something like:
Max Wachtel said:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Marshall on 12/16/2005 in <4PMof.145$dh2.45@trndny08> after much
thought,came up with this jewel:

Max Wachtel said something like:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Thomas G.
Marshall on 12/15/2005 in <toqof.3798$pF.399@trndny08> after much
thought,came up with this jewel:


Once in a while, I am doing something very cpu intensive and would
like to shut down [all of] NSW. Simply asking for auto-protect to
disable doesn't seem to do the trick since the worm protection
seems to stay on.
snip <
is there somewhere a cleaner alternative to this,
perhaps a 3rd party utility?

******************Reply Separator*************************

Yes,I think it is called NOD32
max

lol. punk. :)

Sorry,I couldn't help myself ;)
funny is funny
I try to stay away from anything that has Norton in the name.
max
Click to expand...

Totally agree. Norton isn't exactly resource friendly (or PC friendly
for
that matter!!).
Click to expand...

Yeah, I get that from a lot of folks. I am a little worried about
switching to an unknown though.
Click to expand...


Norton IS the unknown - 'cos nobody understands it (least of all, Symantec!)
At least with other AV's (mostly) you stand a fair chance of winning a
battle for control of the PC - with Norton, forget it!

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