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Performance configuration for software developers

Has anyone else run into this issue? In my company we have a development department that does all the coding for our website and such. One of the biggest complaints which prevents us from running AV on their workstations is performance. In all cases of AV products, the development teams always complain that running code builds and compiles is so much slower with AV.

What is the optimal configuration for SEPP to apply to a computer that a software developer would use that has the least impact to performance? Even excluded subversion checkouts and playpens doesnt seem to help much.

Any pointers?

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  • Does anyone else have other suggestions on improving performance on developers machines with Sophos?

    So far I have tried the following, but the developers still insist during builds Sophos accounts for 20% of all processor capacity:

     

    Exclude the following directories:
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
    C:\Applications\ - global build directory used by developers

    C:\Program Files\PLSQL Developer\

    Detection changes:
    Disable live protection

    Disable suspicious behaviour detection

    Scheduled scan changes:

    Removed the scheduled Monday 12pm scan and replaced with a daily 11pm scan. (to mitigate the risk of relaxed on-access scans). 

    I was thinking of trying to exclude some file types completely. 

    PS. By default all on-access read only scanning and no on-access scanning of PUAs or remote files

    :23179
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  • Does anyone else have other suggestions on improving performance on developers machines with Sophos?

    So far I have tried the following, but the developers still insist during builds Sophos accounts for 20% of all processor capacity:

     

    Exclude the following directories:
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
    C:\Applications\ - global build directory used by developers

    C:\Program Files\PLSQL Developer\

    Detection changes:
    Disable live protection

    Disable suspicious behaviour detection

    Scheduled scan changes:

    Removed the scheduled Monday 12pm scan and replaced with a daily 11pm scan. (to mitigate the risk of relaxed on-access scans). 

    I was thinking of trying to exclude some file types completely. 

    PS. By default all on-access read only scanning and no on-access scanning of PUAs or remote files

    :23179
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