ArmA + F-Secure 07 = Ping Bouncing?

[DocBane 0]

Hello.

My friend is having problems with his ping. He thinks it is caused by F-Secure 07 but is unsure. He's tried playing over internet and over lan but both ways the ping keeps bouncing from 50 to 1000 every few seconds.

Any advice?

His system:

OS - Win XP

RAM - 1.5Gb

CPU - Intel Celeron CPU 2.80ghz

GPU - NVIDIA Gforce 6600

Networ Adapter - Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8803/8010 PCI Gugabit Ethernet Controller

[BraTTy 0]

Celeron 2.8 surely can't handle virus program running in background while playing.

I use Kaspersky Insternet Security and I have XP4000+ cpu and it would be close to 20% performance loss if I let my virus program run while trying to play.Not only that , most all virus programs has its own type of firewall protection.

I don't run anything like that while playing games.I have never got a virus or hacked like that while playing games if thats his worry he shouldn't be gaming (Celeron is not a gaming cpu nevertheless)

If he had some super cpu he may be able to run virus program while playing. He needs to shut off EVERYTHING running in background

But his ping jumping is most surely the firewall protection

edit: ping jumping could also be spyware...virus program doesn't necessarily remove spyware too, I use a few programs to keep mine clean

When someone uses my PC thats most often when it gets infected...I need to enable ALL virus protection when I walk away from PC if others use it

I also use to use Panda software and if I left it enabled I would gradually lose internet connection for all stuff

[-Puma- 2]

download this:

spybot

and run a full scan to see if theres adware.

personally i hate f-secure. the worst prob i got with it, that it would restart my computer for no apparent reason.

I use AVG AND it hasnt given me any probs.

[DocBane 0]

Thanks for the replies. I like AVG as well, I can play online games fine with it being on and it's not once crashed a game because of some updates (mainly because the updating's scheduled for morning :P).

[-Puma- 2]

i can tell u a horror storie about f-secure. when i got my first pc and was a total noob with it, the comp would just restart on itself. after i took it to service for about 3 times, i found the prob myself. it was f-secure, and after i unistalled the whole BS, the comp then worked like a charm.

[Infam0us 10]

Use ... Adaware 2007, Spybot 1.3, Avast! Anti-Virus, Regcleaner, CCleaner, Diskeeper, Spyware Blaster, Spyware Doctor (Needs to be paid but fully worth it!

And I imagine these will find something on that PC ...