I experienced an issue the other day at work in regards to Trend Micro's PC-Cillin.  A colleague brought in their laptop complaining about a slowness issue.  While checking out Task Manager I noticed a CPU spike of 50%.  Turns out the culprit was a process called PcScnSrv.exe which allows PC-Cillin to scan activity on your computer for malware.  So any time you open any application or any type of computer activity PcScnSrv.exe scans and monitors every action.  This causes a major spike in CPU activity.  Sure my initial reaction was to remove Trend and put on a free alternative such as AVG or Avast Home Edition but my colleague just spent $60 to renew his license so I came up with a work around of sorts.  I have not seen any patch on Trend's site that addresses this issue yet, so here is what I did. Who wants to go into task manager every time you log in to kill this process?  I created a bat file to kill the process.    Just type the following code into notepad.

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Then make sure and change the Save as type to All Files and have your file with the ".bat" extension.

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Now you have the familiar bat file icon saved where you like and just double click to kill the task.

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