Exactly, I have noticed a significant downgrade in response time which can only be attributed to Avast updating the virus data base. For example this morning I made sure nothing else was running because my bank account login was taking forever and would lock up and eventually give me an “connection reset” errors. I had to make three attempts to get access my account on-line and as soon as Avast gave me the message that the virus data base was updated then I started getting a much quicker response time from the computer and I was FINALLY able to login and and check my bank account. Everything starts running MUCH faster once Avast finishing the virus data base update.
Unfortunately this dramatic slowing down of the computer while Avast updates is becoming a nuisance. :-\ I am using a computer with i3-380M Processor (2.53GHz) and have 4 GIG of RAM using WIN7 OS so there should not be any issue with my computer.
It would certainly be helpful if Avast would do the simple thing of for example placing a flashing red letter “U” in the system tray ball during an update in order to provide the convenience of easily knowing what was causing the significant downgrade in performance and perhaps wait a while until Avast finishes in that case.