Antivirus (Symantec Endpoint) configuration for developer machine

Asked 7/9, 2009 at 15:32 Answered 7/9, 2009 at 16:18

Solved java performance antivirus symantec

What are your "Symantec Endpoint" configuration recommendations for a developer PC? We do java development with Eclipse, IntelliJ, Ant and Tomcat. With "Symantec Endpoint" the build and server startup are quite slow.

Replacing or removing Symantec is not an option. See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/111226/least-intrusive-antivirus-software-for-development-pc, http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000803.html and http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=44775

Alexandria answered 7/9, 2009 at 15:32 Comment(1)

see also #1306209 – Titanism 18/9, 2009 at 10:33

you can also exclude from scanning java.exe. Make sure you add eclipse.exe too, or make eclipse start as a java.exe process, there is info on how to do that in some question here too.

Not an antivirus thing, but I would also disable windows indexing service.

Sneed answered 7/9, 2009 at 16:18 Comment(3)

Do you have links to the questions that you reference? – Alexandria 7/9, 2009 at 16:33

I said it wrong, by def shows java.exe instead of eclipse.exe, but you get the idea – Sneed 7/9, 2009 at 21:40

glad it did, and BTW, add javaw.exe too! – Sneed 10/9, 2009 at 20:49

With any on-demand anti-virus program, make sure your code tree (source and build) are excluded from on-demand scans. I have seen this change a build from taking minutes to taking seconds.

Neu answered 7/9, 2009 at 15:54 Comment(0)