ORIGINAL: mullenc525
I have Sophos anti-virus installed (free from the university) which runs continually. I have actually never heard of sophos before and have access to free Trend Micro PC-Cillin from work which is more mainstream so I will switch to that. I know PC-Cillin can be disabled if you are playing games etc, whereas sophos cannot.
I run a single LCD on DVI, 1440x900 so not too many pixels.
Sophos apparently has anti-spyware functions, but maybe they are not so good as others? I may use the program available from microsoft. Also I am fairly sure PC-Cillin has built in anti-spyware also.
Also I have heard of a program called enditall2 which apparently will end any processes on the computer other than what you are specifically running. Maybe I will try that as well.
Anything to report regarding turning off Sophos or using endtail2? I haven't identified any reason for your problems in terms of code, but I'll keep looking...