cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict

[Jack Tanner]

Dick Repasky wrote:
> I'm running Symantec 9.0.0.1400 with scan engine 1.2.0.13.

Same as me. The two people that said they weren't having problems were 
running version 8.1.1.323 (Daniel) or 10.0.1.13 (Giampaolo).

I think it's time to try an upgrade or a downgrade.

> I haven't tried it with rxvt rather than xterm. I don't have rxvt 
> installed.

rxvt is easily available through Cygwin Setup.

> The perplexing thing is that nothing seems to be taxed. Processor load, 
> paging, and network all seem normal.  Nothing strange appears in the
> process table if I watch it while running xterm, logging in to the remote
> machine and while forwarding X windows.

Same here.

Do you by any chance have Exceed or any other X server?

I've posted a question about this on the Symantec tech support site: 
http://tinyurl.com/4pf3d