I am running Windows 7 as my main operating system (i7 processor, 32GB of RAM, SSD drive for the main OS). I have SEP 12.x installed in the main OS for virus and firewall protection. I have VMWare Workstation 9.x installed on the SSD and I run a Linux image (also hosted on the SSD). I assigned 16 GB of RAM to the VM image.
My system completely slows to a crawl right after I receive a new virus definition and a file system scan is initiated. It takes 30 minutes to sometimes 2 hours for a scan to complete after having received the new defnition, in the meantime my laptop is unusable, clicking on anything either in the main OS or the hosted OS takes 1 to 2 minutes to respond. In the SEP settings, I tried excluding the VMWare directories from the scan, but that does not seem to help. If VMWare is not running, I never see the issue, but I really need the image to be running most of the time. I uninstalled SEP and had 2 weeks of pure enjoyment being able to work without any issues. Unfortunatelly, corporate policy requires that I run SEP all the time, I had re-install SEP today and I am back to the same issue, first definition push I received and my laptop is again unsusable. We sometime get 2 or 3 new defnitions pushed out a day (I am locked out of most of the preferences in SEP, thus I can't control when to receive the new defs).
Anyone experienced this?
is there a setting somewhere that I am missing that makes SEP play nice with VMWare Workstation?