what is lucoms~1.exe process ? Is lucoms~1.exe any virus or

[Remnat]

Starting 2 to 3 months ago, something unknown started taking over my PC at very short intervals. Nothing unusual happened after these bursts of unknown activity, but they have become maddening, chewing up great gobs of my PC's time plus a lot of unnecessary hard drive use. For a large portion of this time, access to other web sites comes to a dead halt. Upon examination of usage during these periods, Lucom is always involved plus some ancillary programs. It didn't take too much investigation to figure it had something to do with Norton Live update. Thankfully, I found this discussion which has convinced me to turn off automatic live update and see if this annoyance goes away. (Yes, I promise to initiate live update at quiet times).

This discussion also led me to check the live update scheduled task values and I found this task to be run every 30 minutes starting at 1:13 PM on Tuesday every day for 24 hours, which means it is running every 30 minutes (or less?) whenever the system is up. The intervals seemed more like 10 to 15 minutes as suggested elsewhere in this discussion. I never set these values and as mentioned, this problem only started a few months ago. I am surprised to find others discussing this situation as far back as 2004. Since I didn't have this problem in 2004, something has changed. Has Symantec themselves done it via one of their updates? I was running NAV 2004 until this past January when I went to NAV 2007.

I've been a NAV user for several years and until relatively recently, Symantec updated generally once a week, usually on a Wednesday. I ran the anti-virus scan once a week on Thursday morning. Seemed reasonable to me.

My question to others is, how often to you run the anti-virus program? If you run it once a week as I do, what is the advantage of updating the program every 30 minutes, 4 hours, etc.? Unless I'm missing something, this constant updating seems illogical from a practical standpoint.

[charlescrawford]

I also have problems with my computer slowing (glacial). I noticed the lucoms in the scheduler, but there's also 5 entires for LUCallbackProxy.exe. I think I know what a callback is and I don't think there is supposed a lot of them. Am I out of date?

Thanks for any help you might have.

Chuck

[Kativs]

Okay folks. I am having the same problem with lucoms.exe apparently messing up pc. Extremely slow startup, can't run some programs from time to time. Can't run Adaware/Lavasoft.
When you mention to check the schedule for the automatic updates I cannot do this as this area is all grayed out. It says auto update is running in the background and can't be fixed at this time but it's ALWAYS running in the background. This is a small business and this is the only pc having this problem. The others are okay and that area is not grayed out.
What now? Note: The update also says it was never updated even though the update is running.
Thanks (and please speak in English for Dummies as some forums talk pc talk that we cannot understand)---much appreciated.