I used Avast some time ago. I abandoned it when there was an issue with false positives (. Having seen the results of some comparative tests, I decided to leave MSE and come back to Avast.
I am disappointed to see that the problem of Avast slowing the Internet connection down is still as it was back then. Surely, there must be a way to find a balance between safety and performance. Dropping from ca. 10 Mbps to 4 Mbps or below does not look like a balance to me.
Does anyone have any advice on this? Any configuration tips so that protection remains reasonably strong while performance does not suffer? If not, I will have to revert to MSE which was quite OK (albeit quite slow at scanning the whole PC).
Speedtest results vary from ca. 3.5 Mbps to ca. 7 Mbps, but 80% of results below 5. It’s a 10 Mbps cable connection and has been solid for as long as I can remember (obviously sometimes the connection will have a glitch but very infrequently, in my 4 year experience)
Your low speeds are generally related to your ISP, maybe its just a slow day by the results of your speed tests.
My ISP is supposed to be 20 Mbps but im lucky to get 9 or 11 and usually its more like 6.
As ady4um mentioned here, make sure that the computer is free from all kinds of security softwares and try with Avast. If still you are facing the issue, yea try to contact your ISP and check for the connection speed.
@ayeweb If you could be more specific, I could offer a response
@craigb I agree that I need to let it be and check in the next few days again. But the connection has been extremely reliable. Being cable is always very close to the advertised one
@ady4um also have the MBAM, SB S&D, Spywareblaster, SuperAntiSpyware but nothing scans in the background, they are all used on demand
And Comodo Firewall (free version)
Only SAS was sort of recently installed but with MSE in place, never had any issues with the Internet connection
@AdrianH I am wired, no WiFi - and I disagree about the AV and the connection speed. Avast did slow things down when I last used it (several months ago). When I moved to MSE the difference was very clear and, perhaps more importantly, the speeds were very consistent. I was hoping a new version of Avast would work better for me
Anyway, I will have to keep an eye on this to exclude issues arising from ISP
After running the MSE removal tool that ady4um suggested ( which doesn’t need to be run in safe mode ) you will also find two left over folders of MSE here C:\ProgramData\Microsoft,
Then run a search for Microsoft Antimalware, when explorer opens click computer and let it scan then delet the one file that is found.
Spybot can be a bad mix with avast but iv not heard of it giving the issue your having.
Having used Firefox with NoScript for years I have noticed that sometimes updates to them can slow my browsing down. Sometimes I also see the Orange ball rotating when I go a website and sometimes not so much.
Have you noticed more Orange ball rotation when surfing to some websites vs other websites?
Personally I will always prefer a delay in opening a website than no delay because I trust my Browser built in defense mechanisms and my security software. But that is just me.
Thanks. Ran the Uninstaller and removed the folders and will keep an eye on it
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No worries, if your confident in the registry you can also run a search there for Microsoft Antimalware as there is a few leftover keys there also but if your not sure then dont bother.
