Re: TNS-12571 and Mcafee Virus Scan 7

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> Jim Thompson wrote:
>
> > I have Windows 2000 box with Oracle 8.1.5, I installed Mcafee Virus Scan 7 and
> > it created TNS-12571 errors. I tried many things, but finally had to uninstall
> > the product.
> >
> > Seems unfortunate that networking on Windows is still so fragile.
>
> Quite interesting - Packet Writer failures due to McAfee?
>
> Did you happen to ask them? Makes me wonder if they doing something to the TCP/IP
> port such as periodically checking for virus updates?
>
> Did you try moving the Listener to another port, away from 1521?

Or configuring the firewall to ignore 1521?

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