NOD32 Startup Speed

Hello there,

I'm a new user to NOD32 and I was testing the trial version before I go ahead and purchase the license.

I recently formatted my computer and decided to 'start over' with my AV protection and go with another vendor, in this case Eset w/NOD32. I'm running on a fresh Windows XP Professional SP2 installation, with barely any software installed just yet. The only thing at all pertaining to security right now would be Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.18.XXX.

Everything with NOD32 is pretty ok so far, except for my startup speed. I've disabled the splash screen, but there is about a 50 - 70 second delay on startup where NOD32 has 100% of my CPU resources used and the system is practically frozen. After that it drops back down to normal and all is well.

I've tried a few different things to troubleshoot with no effect, and I've set my NIC to have a static UP from my router (via a wired connection) so it doesn't have to wait to be assigned an IP. At this point I'm not sure what else I can do to improve the startup speed; I've seen other NOD32 users bring this up before, but there hasn't been any specific information that I could find to resolve this.

Thanks in advance.

 

Do you have 'automatic updates' enabled as a service? If you do, disable it.

Also see this thread:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=161472

Please post back if you still are experiencing problems.

 

Try changing the Update> Setup> Advanced> Internet Connection to "dialup".

Cheers

 

Have you tried excluding commodos logs.log as explained in the link you placed in this recent post and also explained in this recent thread ?

 

Hey guys,

In viewing some of the other posts concerning this issue, across this and some other forums, I've previously tried to exclude my Comodo log files from scanning, and changing the Internet Connection to dialup in the update settings. I didn't disable Automatic Updates for the OS as Thankful suggested yet since I had just finished formatting, so I disabled that as well recently as well.

Unfortunately when I boot up it's still the same thing. I wouldn't mind it as much if it continued to let other aspects of the OS and background applications load at the same time, and just be slow as with other solutions, but completely halting the boot up process for as long as it does is the only caveat of this seemingly great product. Because the product is so lightweight I might consider living with this, but if I could find a way to resolve this then that would be great.

Open to any other suggestions, and thanks again for the comments left so far.

 

Disabling the splash screen gains you nothing in terms of startup speed.

 

Yea I've noticed, it's been mentioned in other threads regarding NOD32 startup speed but it has no effect.