Stopping (pausing) the resident shield when installing new software is indeed a good thing to do, but…

ONLY when you have scanned the software (download) (or Cd & floppy) beforehand with the on-demand scan.

Doing this, will protect you from installing malware.

There are not much virii & trojan (i guess none) around that infect you when simply downloading it. Most of the malware still needs to be excecuted proir before infecting you.

Most of the times Avast resident shield will “see” the malware even before the download (via internet or P2p) is even finished.

But i do recommend scanning (on demand) every file before installing

Waldo