After becoming rather frustrated with how slowly folders were loading on my external hard drive, it became apparent that Avast was actually scanning the files within the folder, before allowing it to open. Now the files inside the folders are rather large (300mb to 1.5gb) and it causes explorer to lock up for quite some time before the folder actually opens. The files/folders in question are a bunch of GOG installers for games I have purchased from there (67GB in total.)
After perusing around my computer to see what it could be causing the lockups, I have determined it to be Avast causing this issue, and I want to know whether there is any way to resolve it other than disabling the Behavior Shield, which seems to be the culprit component. I checked the behavior shield, and luck would have it, it was scanning the file for virus behavior patterns before allowing the folder to open.
My Technical Specs are
Processor: 3GHz Intel Xeon E3110 Mainboard: ASUS P5KPL-CM (No USB3.0) RAM: 4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM Main HDD: 320GB Western Digital SATA Drive Extra HDD: 2 x 320GB Seagate SATA Drives GPU: Nvidia GeForce 9800GT Graphics Card OS: Windows 7 Professional x86 Avast Version: 7.0.1426 (Internet Security)
^ Hope that is enough information.
Now the external drive in question is a Western Digital Elements 500GB (One with the USB Integrated Logic Board instead of the SATA to USB daughtercard.)
Your help is very much appreciated for this hair pulling issue.