An antivirus that doesn't mess with Houdini.

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I'm sure everyone knows about the problem, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a windows antivirus that doesn't mess with Houdini.
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I'm not aware of one that does. Define ‘mess with’.

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Yeah, I haven't heard of any problems with anti-virus and Houdini.
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Anti-virus some new hip slang for clients?
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I totally forgot about that, linux made my life way easier in a lot of ways.

although our 2D animation dept. still uses XP, we found a very nice solution, AVG, works great and keeps the viruses out, is not free but is actually useful


good luck

and yes it leaves houdini do its tricks
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I used Kaspersky, now I use ESET Nod32. I haven't got problems with any of those regarding Houdini, on XP32 and Vista 64.

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I use Avast! here, no issues.
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Thanks guys.

Antivirus refers to software that protects your computer from viruses, trojans and soforth. I'm surprised that you use Houdini and have never heard of that. It's old hip slang, and yes I'm quite hip.

Anyway, Norten and Panda seems to make Houdini render white shapes and applying shaders is impossible.

So I'll try Avast and some of the others. Thanks.
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I think you'll find the comment was being sarcastic. If you read all of the other responses, you'll see quite readily that *no-one* is having troubles you're assuming to be universal. You can switch around products if you want, but the problem simply doesn't happen with those products. I suspect they need proper configuration.

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I think you'll find the comment was being sarcastic.

With a touch of snarkiness too! :twisted:
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You might actually be having a permissions problem. We experienced a problem at the school I teach at, where basically the shaders had no parameters and all the objects were rendering white. Basically Houdini needs to be able to write and access the folders it installs to or else shit hits the fan. All I know is that when they unlocked the computers so non-admins had complete permissions the problem went away.

had nothing to do with the ant-client virus thingger you youngins are talking aboot.
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I use Avast! here, no issues.
Im now having issues with Avast
Been using them for years too.

Edit: it works but it loads 20x slower
Edited by svenvfx - June 20, 2021 21:45:20
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There is really no need for AV. Windows defender is fine if you dont run every random exe you receive in the mail.
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Resuscitating a post from 2009! Nice!

I use Avast and haven't noticed any issues. But you could always add an exception so that it doesn't scan your Side Effects folder...
Edited by Allegro - June 21, 2021 14:14:10

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oh brother, I didn't see this thread was from 2009. anyhoo I use Malwarebytes and Bitdefender. when I install a new version and run it the first time I get a popup from Malwarebytes asking if I want to give Houdini permission to access internet. I do not have any slowdowns
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I've moved over to Kaspersky Security Cloud (free).

It's extremely lightweight, I can scan in the background and not even notice anything happening on my machine, which was not the case with Bitdefender (free) and many others I had tried previously. I ended on Kaspersky Security Cloud after doing research for the most lightweight AV.

Seems to work really well so far.
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