Hoster vs Norton 360v5 & File Trusting.

[tkelley3]

Everyone, I had updated Vista Ultimate with two critical updates and I also undated my virus checker to Norton 360v5. Hoster stopped working. Really! I opened a ticket and received one email saying they had not heard of any problems. Nothing more! Hoster would choke on opening and take 5 minutes to load (or more). Once Hoster opened and you selected a song to play Hoster would take up to a full minute to run the song. I have more that 18,500 songs and do 8 shows a month so I was in a panic. I actually figured out what was wrong and I am passing it on. Norton 360v5 (previous versions were OK) checks to see if an unknown file is a “trusted” file. Hoster of course is not on its list and all the background checks were taking Hoster to its knees. I found the place where I could tell 360v5 that Hoster files were trusted files and Hoster started working perfectly. Here is what I did: I opened “Check Norton Tasks” (shows your CPU usage) and clicked on the CPU usage chart. This shows the files that are running (I made sure Hoster was running) and I clicked on the Hoster application. I then made it a “trusted” file. I am sure there are other ways to do this but this is the one that worked for me. I am positive this is the problem as I updated by backup computer to 360v5 and tested Hoster and it acted the same way as my main computer. Once I told Norton to “trust” Hoster all was well there also. (I will not go into how much trouble and expense I went through.) This works…Happy Hostering.