PHP<\/acronym> scripts did not seem to indicate any problems either. The queries I was executing and that datasets I was working on were also small and unlikely to be a contributing factor – any query, no matter how simple, seemed to hang. <\/p>\nWhen I suspended or removed ThreatFire, the problems immediately went away. Strangely, as I noted above, adding the MySQL binaries to the exclusion list did not help. What was more interesting is that ThreatFire did not popup any warnings. Usually, when “suspicious behaviour” is detected, ThreatFire will prompt you for a decision. I did not notice any of this.<\/p>\n
ThreatFire is not bad<\/h3>\n
The purpose of this is not to bash ThreatFire; it’s clearly a good tool and has definitive advantages, but just may not be well-suited to development environments where multiple servers are running. I also wanted to provide this information to anyone else who may have been struggling with a slow\/unresponsive server because of the same situation as mine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After seeing glowing recommendations for the heuristic-based ThreatFire anti-malware app from PC Tools, I decided to install it to complement my antivirus scanner and other anti-spyware tools such as Spybot-S&D and Ad-Aware. Initially, it worked fine. While I don’t know how much protection it really added, it was intuitive, easy to configure and didn’t slow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,79,198,213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}