Fed up with NOD32 v4 and system slow down

Using NOD32 v4.0.424 on XP SP3 w 2GB of ram on both machines and very frustrated with the slowness of the sytems when deleting files, downloading files or running files. Ekrn can take anywhere between 60%-99% of the cpu!

Using the default settings on both machines.

 

AMD Athlon64 3500+ and Intel Mobile 1.7GHz CPUs.

 

Once again the build 437 ekrn.exe locked the computer up by using 99% of the CPU during the scan of a firefox large download resulting in having to power cycle the computer thereby losing the download which took 30 minutes to get!

 

You should have let it sit. Depending on what you are downloading, the http scanning module can take a fair amount of time unpackaging it for a scan before comitting to disk.

 

You can set a size limit for scanned archives so that large archives are not extracted to the disk and subsequently scanned.

 

So locking up a computer so that there is no response from neither the mouse nor any of the running applications is acceptable

 

Under which item in the Advanced Setup tree is this option?

 

I dunno but I always use the BlackSpear settings and have never had a problem. Maybe you should try that

 

Thanks for the suggestion but I have had far too many problems with various builds of Version 4 and have uninstalled it completely from this particular computer and reverted back to version 3. I still have a couple of computers with version 4 but will have to play it by ear on whether they suffer the same fate.