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Consumer Products => Avast Mac Security => Topic started by: REDACTED on December 06, 2014, 06:38:49 AM

Title: Does Avast slow down Apple's Time Machine backup process?
Post by: REDACTED on December 06, 2014, 06:38:49 AM

I have just switched to Avast from Avira.  Avira did slow the time-machine backup unless real-time scanning was disabled.  Is that true of Avast as well?   And secondly, will Avast scan email coming in not through the browser but through Apple's Mail application?

Title: Re: Does Avast slow down Apple's Time Machine backup process?
Post by: tumic on December 07, 2014, 12:46:11 AM

Quote from: burtonp2533 on December 06, 2014, 06:38:49 AM

I have just switched to Avast from Avira.  Avira did slow the time-machine backup unless real-time scanning was disabled.  Is that true of Avast as well?

We have some special handling of time-machine backups, but to see how good this works for your system
I would recommend to simple try it out.

Quote from: burtonp2533 on December 06, 2014, 06:38:49 AM

And secondly, will Avast scan email coming in not through the browser but through Apple's Mail application?

Yes, the Avast mailshield scans all POP3(S) and IMAP(S) traffic.