I can't tell you how many times we've chased down field problems that ultimately were the result of antivirus scans. It's been so bad, that one of the first questions we now ask when we get a tool-down report is "is there antivirus running and what is the configuration?"
Bringing Windows into the architecture of any type of capital equipment control system is a bane. A scourge. I mean to say, it really is a misappropriation of software. Imagine, "Yeah, Frank only knows VB, so that's what we used for the aircraft's cockpit GUI."
I can't tell you how many times we've chased down field problems that ultimately were the result of antivirus scans. It's been so bad, that one of the first questions we now ask when we get a tool-down report is "is there antivirus running and what is the configuration?"
Bringing Windows into the architecture of any type of capital equipment control system is a bane. A scourge. I mean to say, it really is a misappropriation of software. Imagine, "Yeah, Frank only knows VB, so that's what we used for the aircraft's cockpit GUI."
/xrant/