Vlk
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One way would be to force the avast service to start later. The avast service is just a standard NT system service (controllable via Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services applet) and the way this is normally is by creating a dependency on a service that starts later. However if you’re running a plain vanilla XP there’s not really much services suitable for this… :-\
Anyway, two things should be said:
- I’m shocked that your boot time takes 2 times longer with avast. On our machines, the impact on performance of this early start of the on-access scanner is nearly negligible…
- All the files you see in the list of scanned files really are accessed! avast doesn’t make it up! So theoretically if any of these files was really infected you’d probably change your mind about ‘ridiculity’ of this scanning…
BTW do you have the resident scanner sensitivity set to Normal or High?
Thanks
Vlk