IBM ThinkVantage Access Connection & Avast 4.7

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Dear Forum,

I’ve been using Avast for about 2 year now. My Avast was updated to 4.7 within the last 72 hours, and my internet connection program (IBM ThinkVantage Access Connection) will not load if Avast is running during the bootup.

As soon as I “Stop On-Access Protection”, via the Avast task tray icon, ThinkVantage will then load. I can allow all the programs to load, while Avast is “off”, then when I turn Avast back on… some programs have issues running.

My ThinkPad T60, 1.5 gig RAM, and Windows XP feels like a P266 with 128 RAM when Avast 4.7 is running.

… any ideas? Anyone else using ThinkVantage Access Connection software on an IBM ThinkPad?

Please advise,
MB

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Configure your Standard Shield sensibility to Normal (and not High) and you’ll have a better resource & protection balance.
Do you use any firewall? Which programs have issues while avast is running?

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All settings are “Normal”, and not High.

Something interesting. I uninstalled, then reinstalled. On the reboot everything loaded fine. Avast updated automatically, so I need to reboot and see if there are any issues.

Be right back.

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Well, the issues are variable now.

After the 2nd reboot, the Avast system tray icon spun for about 2 minutes, and the system resources (CPU Usage), hovered around 52%, then the Avast icon stopped spinning, and the CPU Usage dropped to 3%.

Sorry to bother, I’ll keep an eye on it.

Thank you so much!

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One last observation.

When I have Avast running and I then open the ThinkVantage Access Connections software, the Avast system tray icon rotates (5 times) every 2 seconds, which shows on the CPU Usage History as a heavy sine wave.

This did not happen in pervious Avast versions. The CPU Usage was minimal.

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

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I am also using the ThinkVantage Access Connections software with my R60 and I do not notice these effects.

Upon first load of Access Connections, the avast! icon spins one single time.

I use version 4.12 of Access Connections.

One thing I notice is that the IBM ThinkVantage Client Security Password Manger (uses Fingerprint sensor) has a reasonable effect on system startup and while its startup operations the avast! tray icon is spinning (quite a lot seconds).