I have not spent a lot of time investigating the WHY’s and WHAT’s of the problem but in a nutshell a customer with a Sony VIAO Notebook computer was having a terribly long wait at boot time. The machine would literally sit there frozen for 6 minutes at the VIAO background after Windows login.
It did not take a long time to find out that the program running in the background causing this was SPBBCSVC.EXE, a Symantec Antivirus 10.1 program. While the machine was sitting seemingly frozen I was able to pop open a taskmanager and see that SPBBCSVC.EXE was the last PID opened and running. I uninstalled Symantec and rebooted. The machine booted quickly and easily.
I reinstalled Symantec 10.1 (the version we are running here at Pitt) and the 6 minutes startup reappeared. About an hour of digging found the solution. The SPBBCSVC.EXE file is running an AUTOMATIC STARTUP VIRUS SCAN of the hard drive. This is a big hard drive so it takes quite a while to run the scan while the machine just sits there waiting for it to complete. What a crappy default to set by Symantec.
Bottom line, open Symantec Antivirus, open the Startup Scan Option and delete the AUTO-GENERATED QUICKSCAN.
That will fix the problem for you.
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January 9th, 2007 at 11:37 am
It doesn’t speed up the process very much for very long. Mine is back to slow normal. Whenever a live update is performed it puts the autoscan back in place?