# Toad & McAfee

**URL:** <https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-mcafee/9127>\
**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [January 15, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-mcafee/9127 "2010-01-15T18:13:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Guest](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Guest)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-mcafee/9127/1 "2010-01-15T18:13:08Z")

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Hi guys,  
My first post to this list !

I use Toad (latest version, 10.xxx) and McAfee Total Protection (including VirusScan 13.15) on my XP computer.

When the Virus software is activated, just starting Toad takes about 2 minutes to the splash screen, plus 3 more to the connection screen and up to 10 minutes to connect to an Oracle database.

If the Virus protection is unactivated, the splash screen comes up in 8 seconds and the whole process to the database connection, less than 30 seconds !

Any clues to that anyone ?  
Any suggestion welcome  
Thanks in advance

JMA

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**Author:** ![Bert\_Scalzo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/bert_scalzo/32/274_2.png) [@Bert\_Scalzo](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Bert_Scalzo)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-mcafee/9127/2 "2010-01-16T07:05:56Z")

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You might try adding TOAD to your anti-virus programs “white list”  
– the programs to not scan when running.

TOAD does use some executable compression technology that a very long time ago  
sometimes conflicted with anti-virus engines. But that was many years ago  
– and since then the compression vendor has improved their tool for many  
reasons – including this issue. But you never know – maybe  
it’s time to check into this issue once again. John Dorlon is the person  
who probably will have best reply – I think he’s used it the  
longest.

Hmmmm – 30 seconds for a database connection seems rather slow. So you  
might have some other issues piling on here J

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**Author:** ![wimdelange\_062](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@wimdelange\_062](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/wimdelange_062)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-mcafee/9127/3 "2010-01-18T01:19:11Z")

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**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-mcafee/9127/4 "2010-01-18T08:14:04Z")

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I have nothing to add except I remember someone else having the same problem  
about a year ago – they turned off the virus scanner and it all started  
working. I’d try Bert’s suggestion of white listing.