Elluminate Live! and Anti-Virus Programs

Recently anti-virus programs have a new feature called “On Access Scanning” which is designed to perform a virus scan on any file that is accessed by the user. The “On Access Scanning” also scans files that are downloaded from the Internet and saved to your computer in real time. When you launch an Elluminate Live! session, Elluminate will download files onto your computer and these files will be scanned by the anti-virus program. This will cause long delays during the download and verification of the JNLP file. During the download it may seem like your system stopped but in fact it is just waiting for the anti-virus program to finish scanning the file before it continues. If you notice Elluminate taking longer than normal to start, you can check in your Anti-Virus settings to see if it is performing an “On Access Scan”. If it is performing a scan, there will be an option to add exclusions in the settings configuration so all you have to do is add JNLP to the list of extensions. This should help with long load times.