Usenet Explorer

Just curious to see if anyone else has this problem; alot of times whilst im downloading articles or even getting headers, if i open up the newspro and scroll through the headers or even load up my email for example, the download bandwidth indicator in newspro shows my downloads to cease downloading for the duration of the operation i may be performing. Im running a fairly respectable system and find it hard to see why newspro would be affected by relatively meaningless tasks.


Also, whilst getting headers ive also been alerted by my firewall of virus files, is it possible that a virus can be hidden in these files - surely i would need to run the executable for the virus to become active.

Hope this thread makes sense!

such delays don't make sense.

newspro has very asynchronous design, in particular article/header tasks are running independently, especially article tasks, even the task manager is is not running in the main thread. i'm even planning to reduce the degree of asynchronity to increase performance for an average case by simpler programming.

try to uncheck properties->tasks, below normal priority for network threads. also it is likely the delay is caused by the firewall checkng incoming traffic; if you get alerted while downloading headers it is false alarm since headers don't contain any files (try to uninstall the firewall and other monitoring software temporarily to see what is the difference).

ok will do - thanks for the quick reply

Spot on Alex - unchecking properties->tasks "below normal priority for network threads" seems to have cracked it despite havin the firewall and virus softwae enabled - cheers mate!!