Norton AutoProtect doesn't play nice with Perl

Hey all

Recently, I've had to develop a perl program on WinXP Pro. I kept having problems though - the first time I installed perl, it'd work fine. But after that the interpreter would freeze at the loading stage, and give no error messages of any sort, and I'd have to manually halt it with a Ctrl-C.

I went through dozens of System restores, and uninstall-reinstall cycles, before I finally realized this morning that turning off Norton AutoProtect on my machine (I'm running Norton Pro 2003) makes the problem go away.

I'm mentioning it here in case anyone runs into the same problem - so they won't have to waste hours like I did tearing their hair out and muttering distractedly :^)

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Re: Norton AutoProtect doesn't play nice with Perl by husker (Chaplain) on Nov 05, 2004 at 15:24 UTC
Have you contacted Symantec about this? Sounds like something they'd want to know about, at least.	[reply]
Re: Norton AutoProtect doesn't play nice with Perl by pg (Canon) on Nov 05, 2004 at 18:12 UTC
Might be the way you configure Norton (?), I use the same stuffs as you at home, and never had a problem though ...	[reply]
Re: Norton AutoProtect doesn't play nice with Perl by tachyon (Chancellor) on Nov 06, 2004 at 10:24 UTC
I had a similar problem with NAV but that was several years ago and using NAV2K on Win98SE. Antivirus software is very invasive. If you are recursing the filesystem or compiling stuff you can see a 50% performance hit as well. I have NAV but don't run it in Autoprotect mode. Zone Alarm is more important. cheers tachyon	[reply]