Antivirus signature update causes high HDD and RAM usage and makes PC very slow

[Guest]

[Rolo]

I agree with most comments.

I have xp and ubuntu 9.04 on my notebook, and after using ubuntu for a week and start the pc from XP, antivirus comodo took 15 minutes to update the database, at which time the computer was unusable.
Solution: I uninstall the antivirus, left firewall with D + proactive and install avira free, until the Comodo dev. team resolves this problem with comodo updates the antivirus database.
Comodo antivirus works ok, is fast and lightweight but the updates is a nightmare.
Anyway at the moment I am learning to use ubuntu.

Regards

[OmeletGuy]

Your right it slows down the PC a ton, the DB is going to shrink, and v4 will have a new DB format, that will fix this design flaw and shrink the DB even more.

[Agent24]

Your right it slows down the PC a ton, the DB is going to shrink, and v4 will have a new DB format, that will fix this design flaw and shrink the DB even more.

I hope so, this is the only problem I have with CIS at the moment (apart from how I think BOClean integrated should have its own options in the program...)

But currently this update problem is ridiculous. I really hope that this problem will be solved because I really like CIS and want to use it but currently I can't!!

[andzs]

I can walk away from the computer and do something else for the 15 minutes it's rendered useless by the update... 

The same routine for me. During update comp is totally useless.
Its weird that during update bases.cav gets overvriten so many times !!!  Funny stuff starts when progress meter shows 51%. bases.cav grows from 0 to ~103MB and then starts it all over again - file size gets 0 again ang grows all way up to 103 megs. In each of these cycles PC gets unresponsive for a while. There is 0 network activity. So I am thinking that something goes wrong in DB update procedure...

[jmeri]

From observing the behaviour of the update, it seems to me that the virus signature database is not a database at all in any modern sense.  It's like it's just an array of bytes, and any modification requires a complete rewrite of the file...  Oh, I'm getting flashbacks of magnetic tapes... ;-)

[slg123]

From observing the behaviour of the update, it seems to me that the virus signature database is not a database at all in any modern sense.  It's like it's just an array of bytes, and any modification requires a complete rewrite of the file...  Oh, I'm getting flashbacks of magnetic tapes... ;-)

I think you are right. Till 30% I have seen network activity, after that Its just replacing the DB.

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