Hey all!
Love the product, it has saved me several times. I’m having an issue and was wondering if anyone else was noticing that after a fresh install after time goes by Avast slows down. It’s taking progressively longer and longer to open apps, IE, Outlook, Media player…etc. I’m running win xp pro, amd athlon 2500+ with 1 gig of memory and 2 sata 80 gig drives. I just recently reformatted the drive and reinstalled everything. Re-installed Avast and for about the first 2 or 3 weeks it runs great then it starts to slow down. I have run spybot, hijack this and I’m using Windows firewall from sp2. IE takes a full 15 seconds to open now, and outlook is better than 8 or 9, I notice that while it’s trying to open these apps the Avast Icon is spinning, when it stops spinning the app opens immediately.
Can someone shine some light on this for me. Is there something that I need to clean up. I keep temporary internet files cleaned every day and I’m also running MS antispyware.
I’m sorry to report no such slowing down on my system which as you can see has less poke than yours. IE opens almost instantaneously, firefox which for me is a slouch at 7 seconds first time through and OE less than two seconds.
So there would appear to be something else in the mix that is adding to your slowdown, especially as you have recently reformatted reinstalled apps and have god adware/spyware cover, so that shouldn’t be the issue.
What are your avast Standard Shield settings?
Do you have any other active (resident on access) security programs running as when they check avast will also check the files because that process opens it to read/check? This would create a double scan and possible conflict issue which could slow the system.
I have MSAntispyware v1.0.615 running and that is it.
I use trillian for IM according to the log files, I had a trojan virus about 2 weeks ago but it’s off of there now. I have scanned with everything and nothing is being picked up.
I have IIS enabled and I have an ftp site running (for my use that is) there are no anonymous logins allowed and I’m sure from the logs that I haven’t been hacked that way. yet
I’ve included a screenshot of the task manager. I’m currently running vb 6 sp6, Outlook, Windows media player v10.00.00.3802 and this session of IE. I’m getting about a 13% load at max from the cpu and with everything running that I have, I’m using about 315 meg of memory, which I thought could be expected when playing music.
I have shutdown MSAntispyware to see if that is causing a conflict.
There are a couple of things that I don’t recognise such as BRSVC01A.exe, dllhost.exe, amongst others, but I assume that you would have run hijackthis and checked the log file against one of the on-line analysers?
