system
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I was trying to watch video on YouTube when I noticed that Script Field is constantly scanning the same script (see the screen below). Could this be a shield bug?
system
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There is no chance for script shield bug. Its good to know that Avast shield is working fine. And please let us know if you face any problem in accessing online videos. Thank you for attaching the screenshot
Have a Wonderful Day, Good k@rma!
system
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You sure? Because I noticed the same behaviour while playing another video on a different site. The shield was scanning the same scrip over and over. When I paused the video the shield stopped it’s activity, it resumed after starting the video. Also AvastSvc.exe process was using substantial amount of CPU.
system
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What version of avast are you using?
(I seem to recall there was a problem that was solved by a script shield cache introduced in the latest version)
pk
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Why do you think so? Thanks.
Its good to know that Avast shield is working fine.
So, each shield should scan ~5 objects per second so that I can be sure the shield is working ok?
system
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Hi PK
While playing online videos, scripts(mainly Java and VBscripts) will run in the background to ensure the continious playback of the video .And as per the users input, it stops immediately once he pause the video. which seems to be normal. whats your thought??
Have a Wonderful Day, Good k@rma! 
system
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I don’t really know what scripts are being executed while on-line video is running, but the strange thing is that the shield shows that the same script is being scanned over an over. Also it happens very rarely on certain videos. I am using Avast 6.0.1289, Windows 7 Sp1, Comodo Firewall 5.8 with D+ on.
BTW.
The scripts are being scanned during video buffering, once the video is buffered the activity stops.
pk
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Yes, there’s a bug in script shield - it was already reported, but I don’t have any feedback. It should be fixed in the next version.
igor0
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Well, “bug”… if there are scripts being executed, they should be scanned. So I don’t think there’s much to fix, except maybe for setting some default exclusions - but I don’t know if that’s possible.
pk
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I’ll try to log scanned scripts and maybe we’ll find something how to exclude them from scanning. We’ll see.
pk
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@Quentin: do you use AdMuncher software? thanks
system
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Jeff in Ashland or. agrees. There is a problem with script scanning in my system as well… BUT, !!!
Only with Internet Explorer. Chrome is very zippy with or with out script scanning enabled. Microsoft’s IE however, slows to a craw and refuses to load some pages with the Script Scan enabled yet gets very happy again (for as happy as IE can get) with the Script Scan disabled. And yes it does screw with my video playback as well.
Long time user, first time replier.
me
here
pk
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What’s your IE version, OS version and please let me know some URLs which cannot be loaded with Script Shield, thanks!
system
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IE version 9.0.8112
OS Vista home premium SP/2
URL which terminates
http://www.independent.co.uk/
URL slow
www.KMHD.org
DavidR
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Interesting, have you tried browsing both with firefox, as I did and my script shield count didn’t increase.
When I tried it for IE8 in the Independent I immediately got a jump of 150 on opening the page, then I got the site wants to run Flash activeX control, when allowed the script shield count jumped 188. But, for each page loaded it jumped about 60-100 and many site wants to run Flash activeX control for different pages.
This is one of the reasons why I don’t use IE, activeX. So that site is media intensive, but it doesn’t terminate or constantly rack up script shield count. I didn’t try the second site with IE.
system
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The first URL loaded in both FF 9b1 and IE9 for me. It loaded a lot faster in FF
The second URL loaded at about the same speed in FF and IE. Loaded at what I consider normal speed.
The first URL showed 7 tracking cookies and about 7 scripts according to NoScipt. Based upon my experience about an average number of scripts.
The second URL has only 1 tracking cookie and very few scripts
Script Shield did show a little bump in activity when I loaded the pages but not anything I would consider outrageously high.
P.S. Thanks for the posting the second link. Jazz fan here 
system
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No problem with either site for me.