Greetings!
I’m a total Avast! noob. I just downloaded it not 8 hours ago and have spent the last 3 of them poking around looking and observing Avast!. My wife and I were playing Dungeon Siege and noticed that since installing Avast! on my machine (Athlon XP 2400+ running XP Home SP2 fully updated, etc.) that inventory items which fall to the ground in the game do not appear on her machine (since mine is serving the game). As a network admin, I began thinking that maybe Avast! is dropping the packets related to whatever item should be on her screen. We also experienced an unusual amount of lag. I shut down the network protection (which didn’t work) and eventually all the real time scanning, which also didn’t fix the problem. I’ve since added the game folder (and subfolders) to Avast’s list of exclusions. Haven’t tested it yet. This leads me to my questions…
- do you think this will solve my problem?
- exactly, how does the avast network scanner work? :-\
- will the avast network scanner respect the packets created by the game .exe and support files after adding them to the exclusion list? (ie. ignore them and let them through without interference?)
- is there a way (other than adding the files to avast’s exclusion list) to configure the network scanner to ignore any game-related packets? How does Microsoft’s QoS protocol affect this?
I’ve skimmed the last few months of this forum and haven’t found anything to help me out with this issue. So far, I’m very impressed with what I’ve read in this forum in terms of friendliness and professionalism. Koodos to the admins and the rest of the avast family…
Thanks in advance,
Vuv