virus internet suites and video capture advice sought.

[DBenz]

Hi, about to buy a virus checker firewall spamblocker suite and wondering if it still holds nowadays that one should disable such for video capture ? McAfee Total Protection prog has no easy disable and can only disable viruscan via start>run route !
BitDefender is the prog I am interested in, highest passes in the tests, but again unable to find out if it can be disabled and which bits. I assume firewall remaining enabled is ok, no doubt the background scanning has to be disabled along with viruscan, or is it just viruscan thats a no no ?
AVG has one click disable but has poor firewall.
I dont want any dropped frames and I am rebuilding PC with HD for capture, another for the OS. As before but SATA this time yet miniDV to AVI saw dropped frames prior to this build.
DBenz

[redwudz]

If you were dropping DV frames from a camcorder via FireWire transfer, you had major problems not likely related to any anti virus program. DV transfer should put a minimal load on a system. It's a simple data transfer, not really a capture.

But what do you mean by 'miniDV to AVI'? DV is DV-AVI. Are you doing some sort of DV to ? conversion on the fly?

I use a ADVC-100 analog to DV converter to a FireWire (1394A) card and I've never disabled anything and never had any proplem with dropped frames.

Could you explain your (previous) setup a bit more? Is it DV to FireWire?