Setting priority of Trend Micro Officescan Scheduled Scan

[Sriram N A \(MICO/PJ-SAP-PP\) *]

Periodically, a full anti-virus scan of the client PCs in our corporate
network is kicked off through a scheduled job, which more-or-less cripples
my PC for about an hour.

I noticed that it is possible to mitigate the performance hit by setting the
process priority to low, so that it completes in the background (although
taking a little longer) while allowing normal work to continue.

Is there any way to automatically detect that a particular process is active
and change its run priority to low / idle (task manager scheduled job /
script)?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Why not just reschedule the Officescan scheduled scans for after hours? Tell
people to leave their computers on at the end of the day - just log out.
That's what I do.

 

[Sriram]

Such "pragmatic" decisions are in the hands of the powers that be... I guess
they do this because there's no way to ensure users' machines are on during
off-hours.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

That's a company policy issue, not a technical one. ;-)

Such "pragmatic" decisions are in the hands of the powers that be...
I guess they do this because there's no way to ensure users' machines
are on during off-hours.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Why not just reschedule the Officescan scheduled scans for after
hours? Tell people to leave their computers on at the end of the day
- just log out. That's what I do.

 

[Sriram]

I bet, but the wise find ways of working around these things, as Confucius
no doubt must have said.

I hear mention of a command line tool: Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter
Documentation

Command-line utility
ProcCon.exe is a command-line utility with which you can gain complete
access to all of the Process Control services.

Sounds promising, except it doesn't exist on my Win2000 Pro Client.

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That's a company policy issue, not a technical one. ;-)

Such "pragmatic" decisions are in the hands of the powers that be...
I guess they do this because there's no way to ensure users' machines
are on during off-hours.
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Why not just reschedule the Officescan scheduled scans for after
hours? Tell people to leave their computers on at the end of the day
- just log out. That's what I do.
Sriram N A (MICO/PJ-SAP-PP) * wrote:
Is there any way to automatically detect that a particular process
is active and change its run priority to low / idle (task manager
scheduled job / script)?