J2EE install affects virus scanner

I have McAffee's VirusScan Enterprise 7.1.0 running on my Windows XP laptop, after I install J2EE 1.4 SDK the virus scanner starts misbehaving. It dramatically slows down the system when I run Java apps or access jar or zip files. Before installing J2EE the performance was good.
This problem has been replicated on a colleague's laptop and by one of our IM support guys on an identical system.
Does anyone know if the J2EE installer interferes with files used by VirusScan?

Yes, but I don't have the privileges to configure the virus scanner; zip and jars are scanned as part of our site-wide security policy.
Performance is fine before installing j2eesdk-1.4 , and it's fine if you install j2sdk-1.4 instead.
However , once the j2eesdk has been installed the scanner slows access to zip/jar files by more than 10x.
This has been confirmed by our IM department. Reconfiguring or reinstalling the scanner does not fix the problem. Removing j2eesdk does and reinstalling the scanner does not fix the problem either.
Our IM department has been unable to pinpoint the problem and is currently recommending rebuilding our PCs but I would prefer a less drastic solution.

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