serious BUG: Avast slows down Vista inhibiting the Superfetch

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There's a serious performance bug in avast! antivirus.
avast! slows down Windows Vista.
avast! causes a lot of hard drive activity every time you launch an
application although it's already cached in RAM, it seems avast to be
incompatible with Vista's Superfetch.
Try to disable avast and your Windows Vista will fly!!!
 
Is This With Or Without Service Pack One? Somebody Posted Earlier That All
of The Problems He/She Was Having With Super Fetch Was Fixed When He/She
Installed Service Pack One From MSDN/Tech Net Top Subscriber Download's,
Just FYI.
 
I have been using Vista and Avast since day one.. with it or with out it..
Vista is basically the same

Yes I know how to disable avast, but even without avast installed at all
Vista is more or less the same.

I havent noticed any huge impact on Vista performance from Avast out of the
ordinary...

Vista is slow to begin with .. even with SP1 its much improved but its still
slow.. lol
 
mikk said:
There's a serious performance bug in avast! antivirus.
avast! slows down Windows Vista.
avast! causes a lot of hard drive activity every time you launch an
application although it's already cached in RAM, it seems avast to be
incompatible with Vista's Superfetch.
Try to disable avast and your Windows Vista will fly!!!
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I've got Avast on my Vista box and have put it on lots of clients' machines
and have experienced no difficulties whatsoever. Perhaps you have something
else running that is conflicting? You might want to check on Avast's user
forums if they have any.

Malke
 
I have used Avast in my customers' computers using XP and Vista for ages.

Absolutely no reported problems.
It is 32bit and 64bit Vista compatible.
 
mikk said:
There's a serious performance bug in avast! antivirus.
avast! slows down Windows Vista.
avast! causes a lot of hard drive activity every time you launch an
application although it's already cached in RAM, it seems avast to be
incompatible with Vista's Superfetch.
Try to disable avast and your Windows Vista will fly!!!
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I notice no performance impact at all from Avast!
If it weren't for the little rotating "A" in the system tray i wouldn't know
it was there.

Windows Vista will never fly! Nor does it "run". Walks pertty fast though.
 
Is This With Or Without Service Pack One? Somebody Posted Earlier That All
of The Problems He/She Was Having With Super Fetch Was Fixed When He/She
Installed Service Pack One From MSDN/Tech Net Top Subscriber Download's,
Just FYI.
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Just plug MSDN every time you can. Makes you feel important to play with
the "big boys". Who really cares where you get SP1? Does it really matter
telling everyone when you install something, when you download something?
Try getting a job.
 
I Was Just Simply Asking Whether He Had Service Pack 1 Or Service Pack 0
Installed On His Computer, Because I Have Been Using Both Avast 4.7
Home/Pro/Server Edition On All Sorts Of Different Workstation/Server
Configurations With No Problems Whatsoever, Just FYI.
 
gradofan said:
Absolutely!

The most recent version of Avast is no longer compatible with Vista -
slows it to almost a stop... for whatever reasons.

Ran it successfully for years - before the most recent update - but, no
longer!

I'm now a happy AVG user.

And... yes... Vista does fly without Avast!


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2 years late and 50 IQ points short!
 
Poutnik said:
Interesting, I did not notice any slowdown on vista64 home premium.
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Well he said since the last update and I have not seem my home machine
for a week, but it was working very well and less nagging than Avira. It
was AVG that gave me most trouble a few month back which is why I tried
Avira.
 
gradofan said:
Actually... not at all...

Avast was fine with Vista 2 years ago... even up until 2 days ago.

Its the most recent version, with all updates to Vista and Avast that
made the difference.
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That's mighty strange, because I don't experience any of those symptoms you
describe. Avast works as well for me as ever, but I have it on 'autopilot'.
Whatever gave you trouble, was not caused by Avast, I'm sure.

Harry.
 
I should note... that... the conflict was really more of one between
IE8 and Avast, primarily, and Firefox 3.5 and Avast, secondarily...
not... no much between Vista, per se, and Avast. The browsers were what
"shut down," though Vista was involved.

And... it seems others, with the identical set up have had similar
issues - though not related to the most recent update.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-perfo...air-corrupt-system-files-avast-antivirus.html
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I have all Vista updates, latest Avast version, IE8 and Firefox 3.5.
And not having any problems.

It need not to be true Avast does not like
your Vista/IE8/FF configuration.
Maybe your Vista/IE8/FF configuration does not lika Avast. :-)
 
Well he said since the last update and I have not seem my home machine
for a week, but it was working very well and less nagging than Avira. It
was AVG that gave me most trouble a few month back which is why I tried
Avira.
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Last update is from August
 
gradofan said:
Actually... not at all...

Avast was fine with Vista 2 years ago... even up until 2 days ago.

Its the most recent version, with all updates to Vista and Avast that
made the difference.

Prior to that Avast was "as good as it gets." But... something has
gone horribly wrong with the most recent version.

Ah... just so you know... the loss of 50 IQ points would still leave me
at 148... substantially above all but about .5% of others.
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By the lack of logic of your post I think you added 50 instead of taking
them away!

Camper
 
Absolutely!

The most recent version of Avast is no longer compatible with
Vista - slows it to almost a stop... for whatever reasons.

Ran it successfully for years - before the most recent update -
but, no longer!

I'm now a happy AVG user.

And... yes... Vista does fly without Avast!
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Why are you reviving a 10-month old thread, especially since it's not
true? I have Avast running on at least 3 different Vista systems, and
they behave just fine, no abnormal slowdown at all.

You may have some issue with it on your own computer, but there is no
general problem between Avast and Vista.
 
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