We finally managed to reach Kaspersky support and they had use exclude
the Firebird directory from the virus scan and that fixed the problem.
Oddly enough, pausing the virus scanner completely didn't fix it.
Strange.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Hope" <paulhope@...>
wrote:

>
> I use the same setup Server2003, fb1.5, Kaspersky with no problems.

Cant

> tell you much about the Kaspersky setup (I think its default) because

I cant

> remember how to get into it! If you want me to check you'll have to

remind

> me how.
>
> Regards
> Paul
>