Hi guys,
don’t know what happened, Avast run really fine in Win7 until it (Avast) got updated a few weeks ago. Don’t get me wrong, it still does run and protects the system as it should, but it generates longer boot times and occasional swapping to hard disk during a Windows session. I’m dead sure that wasn’t the case before Avast got updated to 4.8.1356. I even got some strong hard disk activity after login in when resuming the system from hibernation. As I wanted to troubleshoot that yesterday, being not sure whether it was Avast or new graphics drivers or anything else responsible for that mess, I uninstalled Avast, rebooted, and the problem was gone: normal boot times as well as normal behavior when resuming from hibernation. So that’s Avast 4, at least the current and probably last version of it. I then gave a shot to the latest beta, and it was OK. So it obviously sounds like more compatibility can be expected with Seven in Avast 5.
Unfortunately, I can’t keep the beta as I’m not ready to leave my system protected by an AV that can’t be updated, and the definitions are now too old.
ps: OT yeah that’s two issues now as Firefox also became extremely heavy in resources (HDD swap too…RAM is OK) in Seven since the upgrade to version 3.53. This 3.53 is a disaster.