McAfee DAT FIle Update Locks Up LabVIEW

[jpkonzel]

Here is some background... DAQ MIO PCI card, SCXI rack, 128 TC channels at 10 scans/second, graphing 20 channels every 2 seconds,  datalogging once/minute.  Datalog file is opened and closed during each write operation. 

Manual VS conducted when LabVIEW is not running.

While running LabVIEW, Altiris Agent and EPolicy push down daily McAfee DAT updates.  Coincidently, LabVIEW locks ups/crashes when the DAT file is pushed down to the machine.  Graph, datalog file and McAfee On-Access Scan Log verify the time of event. 

The obvious answer would be to disable Altiris Agent and EPolicy.  However, this does not occur on other similarily configured machines, and for network management purposes this is not a consideration.  Any suggestions?   

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Been there done that...

If McAffe does not let you configure or control when where and how then you may end up having to do what one of my customers ended up doing.

They pull the network cable before a test starts and put it back after the test is over.

"A man (PC) can note serve two masters."

Ben