Kaspersky hogs all the memory

[bztips]

We have latest version of Kaspersky plug-in installed. Everything seems to work normally most of the time, but every so often kavss.exe just runs and runs and runs, and occupies 90-95% of available memory, causing Wingate itself (and anything else on the server) to slow to a crawl. I don't see anywhere an option to schedule a scan of an entire drive, so I don't know what's causing this. Any ideas?

Thx.
/Bill

[Pascal]

Does this co-incide with:

(a) a data file update OR
(b) a download that is being scanned where the download is an excessively large file ? (Service pack size or larger)

You can check the scheduled times for data file updates in the Scheduler to see if there is any chance of them co-inciding.

[bztips]

No, there is nothing being downloaded when this happens. Kaspersky just chews up all the memory and constantly accesses the hard drive -- endlessly, until we reboot.

Like I said, I don't see any Scheduler anywhere in KAV. What scheduler are you talking about?

/Bill

[Pascal]

Like I said, I don't see any Scheduler anywhere in KAV. What scheduler are you talking about?

The Scheduler in WinGate. By default it is set to download / update the AntiVirus Databases once every 3 days (I think it's 3 days).

[bztips]

Well, I must be missing something, because I don't see an anti-virus scheduler dialog anywhere in Wingate either.

But that's not the problem anyway; there is nothing being downloaded. It's just that kavss.exe just chews up all the memory and constantly accesses the hard drive until we reboot. Again, this happens only periodically (once every several days).

/Bill