Updated this morning to the newest version. Noticed Avast making a restore point. Now when I check for recent restore points, I found this listed :
Device Driver Package Install : Avast Network Service
What is this ?
Most likely firewall.
So this means you are not sure ?
What about my problem here : http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=106334.msg1036896#new
Do you have a fix ?
I can confirm that it is Avast firewall.
Regarding the scanning, what type of scan are you running?
Remember a full scan will take long since it populates the cache. I’d recommend “unchecking” follow links during scan and “check” scan files in order in both quick and full scans.
With a resident AV such as Avast, you don’t need to scan much. A weekly/monthly quick scan would suffice alongside a Malwarebytes scan.
This only happens when I right click on something I have downloaded and saved to the desktop.
It takes minutes to do this when it only took seconds before the update.
Well, I I didn’t explicitly check but there aren’t many things we install as a driver package and avast! firewall is a “network service” in technical terms. If I were to name our firewall using just vendor name and device class, this would likely be it.
Well, this is the first time this has happened. Never saw it listed anywhere before.