My co-worker asked about this possibility I thought it was cool and would pass it along to see what you think:
It would be nice to have a “monitor window” for the avast! client. In specific, there are times when my HD is going crazy; and, according to me, there’s no reason for such activity. avast! sees this HD activity and is spinning; therefore, it knows what is being accessed. From a security standpoint it would be helpful to know what files are being accessed in real-time. Since avast! knows this (and Microsoft isn’t kind enough to tell us this basic system activity information), it would be a nice addition to avast! if they could do it.
There are obvious performance implications, so the monitor would be a “run it as you need it” interface vs. some default interface.
BTW the window is heavily customizable. Things like number of entries to show, fade out period, transparency level and color schemes can be set in the avast4.ini file. (you might’ve been wondering what these 56,000 posts on the forum are all about – it’s mostly things like that).
Also, it’s good to know that clicking on the window makes to disappear immediately - useful if it’s obscuring some text on the screen you’d like to read…
