It is stressing my 7 year old HDD a LOOOOT. Is there a config or registry workaround to disable continous background scanning (reading of HDD files/directories)? Else I’ll have to switch to another antivirus solution (which I really wouldn’t want to).
LOL sorry mistyped, I meant Avast obviously ! ! ! Sorry!!!
- Which Avast…? (Free/Pro/IS/Premier)
- Which version…?
- OS…? (32/64 Bit…? - which SP/Build…?)
- Other security related software installed…?
Free
latest afaik (17.9.2322 build 17.9.3761.278)
64 bit Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
Not other security software.
And PLEASE fix the verifcation for posts, like 95% of the codes are IMPOSSIBLE to read!!!
OK, wait for one of the guys with W10, can’t confirm it here.
PS: Captcha is only needed for your first 3 posts. (Spam protection)
Understand the reason for captchas but these are impossible! Maybe one of the moderators needs to come in on a newbie account and check them out… not a clue with the one I am facing now! Think I can do it on the fourth image… will try now before I loose it!.. No… got it wrong… try again… just two this time and the previous one came up… think that R might be an A… try it…
there are something you can do to reduce HDD activity from avast:
1/ disable transient caching (settings->file shield->advanced)
2/ add some following rules in file shield exclusion
https://imgur.com/mFAxKSe
Disabling transient caching won’t reduce scanning in fact it is more likely to increase scanning.
The exclusions you give is more likely to put your system at risk and not advised.
1/ I’m talking the fact that after disabling transient caching, my disk activity dropped by a significant amount. Observed on many PCs with low specs. With transient caching, people complaint about avast slowing down their machines and after disabling it, their machines were much more responsive. Do you remember the incident of lscache.dat? I don’t trust descriptions from avast because there are mistakes, I trust my own experiments
2/ those are selective exclusion, not full exclusion so it will significantly reduce avast’s scanning but still preserve 95% of efficacy. I know what I’m doing and what I’m tweaking. In fact, behavior shield is not affected by this exclusion, just file shield so when something passes through all the shield, it will be blocked by behavior shield. I have been testing avast with zero-day malwares on VMs, I can say that these exclusion almost has zero effect on avast’s protection capability, tested with and without exclusion. I know avast’s weaknesses and strengths
Well, do as you like. Still, #2 is dangerous advice for average users.
With transient caching enabled, files that have been scanned once and found clean aren’t scanned again until you reboot or there is a VPS update.
The transient caching is designed to reduce scanning, it might not be much, but that is what it is meant to achieve. With it disabled any benefit (no matter how small) is lost and more files will be scanned, that is the whole point of it.
Any possible benefit wouldn’t be from files not being scanned, but from the overhead of updating the transient cache file.
But that is the problem, when you say after a reboot my whole 2 TB on my drives will be scanned again?
NO, not the whole drive would be scanned, as avast is an on-access scanner, only active files would be scanned.
You still haven’t grasped that transient scanning ‘enabled’ is there to prevent multiple scans of the same file. Even if this only prevents some active files being scanned more than once before a reboot, it is still less scanning.
Disabling transient caching means more scans of the same active file/s being scanned more frequently.
Ofc I didn’t disable transcient scanning… Still, even when disabled, Avast keeps scanning my Nvidia local app data… I think I will add that path to exceptions…
Guys WHAT is going on. I DID put Program files and PF x86 in EXCEPTIONS, STILL you guys sniff around in my program files folders!!! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!! AND THAT even with DISABLED AVAST, w t f ?? Here the proof you guys are totally spying without permission:
https://s18.postimg.org/kkj5t8oid/AVASTspies.jpg
EVERYONE who has a 7 year old SATA II 2TB HDD like me will notice that you guys are spying. Good luck, I’m done with Avast and AVG too, going to Avira now.