at the startup of my Win XP (SP2) maschine avast 4. Home is scanning over 800 files, only with the “default protection” (not network, p2p…). I think it’s a too much and it slows down my system. I have set the settings to “Scan only at access” and “don’t scan at creating/changing of files” but its still scanned 800 files.
Avast scanned files over all Partitions (C, D, G) and many programms which are not in the autorun of windows.
Has someone the same problem or i’m to blind to see the right option at the settings?
Thanks,
gott_ad
This is a known situation
Not only startup programs are scanned but all them there are ‘touched’ by any process: to get icons, to start dll and services, etc.
Resident protection intercept all files being accessed and scan them.
If you use File Monitor from www.sysinternals.com you’ll know which program is reading each file and make your decisions…
Thanks for Reply.
In this thread was descriped how to disable a few services and programs, but i need all my startups
therefore i must wait for a smarter avast engine.
Thanks
gott_ad
No, try Startup Delayer.
It’s a freeware that controls the windows startup (Windows 98\Me\2k\XP) that does not follow a strict order.
You can set some applications to start very after the boot (logon) itself.
There is not such a possibility for Windows Services
As the originator of that thread, the disabling of services, and start-up entries, etc. was to try and establish the program/s responsible for all the file accesses that obviously have to be scanned by avast.
The bottom line of that post is I have basically set my Standard Shield to Normal sensitivity and that greatly reduces the total scanned files. All my start-ups are back as they were once I concluded my testing. I was getting up to 800 files scanned with Standard Shield on High, on Normal that came down to around 250.
Yes there are files that I still think shouldn’t require to be scanned but is most likely down to icons being extracted from files to be used by explorer and start menu, etc. Not ideal but there is no way I would jump ship because of it, that however, is your choice.
Other possibility is using FileMon (a monitor tool of files) as a link at startup applications. You must logon as soon as you can and after finishing the logon processes, save the FileMon report. Maybe you can post it here or, if it’s too big, looking if you find the ‘guilty’ application. The one that starts other files and processes.
FileMon is at www.sysinternals.com
Tried that (as mentioned in the original thread), read the book, watched the film, bought the tee shirt and still FileMon didn’t show up anything and browsing 13000+ line entries tiresome. I did send it to Vlk (I think) some time ago and nothing found or reported either.
My only reason of posting was to sat that by droping the sensitivity to Normal reduced the number of files scanned and the reason I disabled stuff was to try and track the culprit and ‘gott_ad’ shouldn’t have to disable any start-up entries or services.
