Re: TortoiseSVN 1.4.0.7501 causes McAfee problem

Peter Termaten wrote:

> I'm not sure who 'owns' this problem, but the following happens after
> installing TortoiseSVN 1.4.0.7501 on WinXP/SP2
>
> When checking out a project using TortoiseSVN, Zend Platform 5.2.0/233
> starts behaving very slow. Taskmanager shows 100% CPU usage of McAfee
> Virusscanner (version 10.0.27, engine 4450 DAT 4859. After disabling the
> viruschecker things are back to normal again.
>
> Using either a network drive or local drive for checking out does not
> make a difference. Exporting instead of checking out the project does
> not cause the problem.
>
> Reinstalling TortioseSVN 1.3.5/6804 and a new checkout makes the problem
> disappear again.
>
> Looks like something in the new .svn content makes McAfee very unhappy.

Yes, version 1.4.0 has a new working copy format. 1.3.x used xml for the
working copy metadata, which I guess made McAfee just ignore those
files. But the current version uses another format (which is faster than
xml, but not quite readable text anymore). So McAfee seems to think that
these files could be dangerous and checks them much more intensive.

Sorry, but there's nothing we can do about that. I hope that McAfee has
some option to ignore certain directories from scanning? If not,
complain with McAfee.

Stefan

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