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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: firefighter on November 19, 2003, 08:46:05 PM
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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My system is taking about 3-5 min to get to the Internet and email on my system. I have avast! antivirus and the Sygate Firewall. Is the there issue where the firewall and antivirus would cause this conflict.
Anyone just anyone please help.
Thanks in advance.......
firefighter
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sygate hogs your ram causing your computer to run slower I used it once it was too much for my laptop 128mb of ram to handle
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firefighter,
Contrary to what MacLover2000 has stated.............
Sygate and Avast DO NOT HAVE ANY KNOWN ISSUES.
I use Sygate 5.5 and Avast 4 without any connection, loading or email problems.
Sygate is not a ram hog! I find it rather efficient in its memory usage.
I once had Sygate running on a 64mb system just fine.
If you are having problems connecting, then I would suggest you look elsewhere.
Sygate does not interfere with the actual connection. It will however monitor all apps that try to access the net and process them according to the level of protection for which you have it set.
In order to offer help, I need to know more about your system configuration, and ISP provider.
Are you using modem or DSL?
What version of Sygate and Avast do you have installed?
Did the problem start after installing Sygate? or Avast?
techie101
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Hi,
Use a free available memory defragmenter for your RAM this solves the problem and you will gain nearly the same speed as befroe. But as you know the best is to have lots and lots of RAM. The more the better. Just ot prevent the use of the swap file and the have the possibility to have as much as needed i/o dedicated memory.
As you also know al lot of perfomacne problems occours due to items as backwards compatability ad so beisdes the poor programming of a lot the programmers.
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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My system is taking about 3-5 min to get to the Internet and email on my system. I have avast! antivirus and the Sygate Firewall. Is the there issue where the firewall and antivirus would cause this conflict.
Anyone just anyone please help.
Thanks in advance.......
firefighter
I fully agree with techie... Could you please post more information?
How Sygate is configurated (level)?
If you need some links for RAM defragmentation (although I think it's not you're exactly problem now) you can see here (http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=1509;start=0) at section RAM Defragmentation & Test Tools. ;)
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Technical,
Your links pages are rather extensive, and very useful.
However, if I may comment....it might have been better to link to the home page of the application instead of going directly to the download. Some users would rather read first before downloading. Also, many of the links are no longer active. It was a fantastic effort and well appreciated.
I think you mean to refer firefighter to REPLY # 37.....there are no sections.
Anyway, could you recommend a Ram Defrag tool for firefighter?
firefighter,
I do not believe that your problem is with the Ram, however, Technical's suggestion is a good one. I would do a standard Diskscan and Defrag to start.
We can go from there.
Technical and I will be able to help you.
I'm back! :D
techie
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Technical,
Your links pages are rather extensive, and very useful.
However, if I may comment... it might have been better to link to the home page of the application instead of going directly to the download. Some users would rather read first before downloading. Also, many of the links are no longer active. It was a fantastic effort and well appreciated.
Unfortunately, to change all that information will take me more time that I had... I suggest the user copy the link and delete the end of it, going to the homepage...
I think you mean to refer firefighter to REPLY # 37.....there are no sections.
This was a mistake I have already edited ;)
Anyway, could you recommend a Ram Defrag tool for firefighter?
No, I said not as you did. It just to follow the Pandora's suggestion. ;)
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Technical,
I understand fully that it would take time. I certainly did not mean for you to start changing the links, but your advice of cutting off the link ending to get to the home page was good for users who are less knowledgable than we.
Pandora,
Do you know of a reliable Ram Defrag tool that firefighter could try?
Thanks to all,
techie
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sygate hogs your ram causing your computer to run slower I used it once it was too much for my laptop 128mb of ram to handle
Sygate on my system uses less than 20mb. Maybe, CPU priority settings might make programs in the foreground run faster.
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i'm facing the same problem!!!....
i had sygate running on both my laptop and desktop...laptop is fine...however desktop takes 3-5 mins to completely start up...strange indeed...
i tried uninstalling sygate and everything is good....but when i install sygate back...problem persists!!!.... ??? ???
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Have you checked with the Sygate forums?
http://forums.sygate.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=6
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thks...but i already switched back to za... :P
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Pandora,
Do you know of a reliable Ram Defrag tool that firefighter could try?
any ideas yet? ???
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thks...but i already switched back to za... :P
Yep, you just have to find the program that works best on your machines :)
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Different configurations on different machines cause different problems but I doubt Sygate's problems are caused by Avast. I have been running Avast and Sygate on a Win 98 second edition config with 200 meg ram with no problems at all. Sygate can be slow to load at times but again I say Avast is not the problem. Check it out by disabling Avast and see how long it takes for Sygate to load. :)
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I use Sygate 5.5 and Avast 4 under Windows XP and I've encountered any problem.
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Pandora,
Do you know of a reliable Ram Defrag tool that firefighter could try?
any ideas yet? ???
try http://www.webattack.com/get/fastdefrag.html (http://www.webattack.com/get/fastdefrag.html)
freeware, reliable and no silly setup rules, automatic and manual ;D
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I use Sygate ( free version ) with avast ( free version ) and I don't have any problem.
I use Windows XP home edition ( french version ).
If it can help.
Sincerely.
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The "smite master" needs to start taking it easy with the newcomers. I suggest we do away with this nonesense.
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what do you mean by nonsense???
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It's a support board. I see no reason for rating each other like children any more. I've noticed someone is smiting people with less than 25 posts. People making legitimate support related posts. These people cannot see the applaud and smite links and probably wonder what the heck the negative number is for under there user id. I've also noticed that this is an international board and sometimes things get lost in the translations and people get their feelings hurt simply due to the misinterpretation. I also suspect we have a "smite master" that feels it is very serious business.
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It's a support board. I see no reason for rating each other like children any more. I've noticed someone is smiting people with less than 25 posts. People making legitimate support related posts. These people cannot see the applaud and smite links and probably wonder what the heck the negative number is for under there user id. I've also noticed that this is an international board and sometimes things get lost in the translations and people get their feelings hurt simply due to the misinterpretation. I also suspect we have a "smite master" that feels it is very serious business.
Culpeper, I agree with you (except in the case of 'our' bryan, do you remember?). All of we must care about 'smiting' someone before he/she becomes a 'Jr. Member'. Anyway, the other users could [applaud] and the 'smite master' (if exists) could not have the power of all other users... 8)
Stop crying, you receive one each! ;)
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yes and my karma has gone from 15 to 13 ouch
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I don't know who is doing it but it needs to stop. I see no reason why MacLover should lose K's. He's been very active and helpful since becoming a member and deserve recognition. I've just noticed that newcomers with no provocation are receiving negative numbers before they are eligible to score points on others.
Don't misunderstand me. I like the scoring. I just suspect someone is playing games to run off newcomers. I might just be paranoid though but it tends to make me suspicious and go on a mini smite campaign myself, which I'm not going to do anymore now that I have my suspicions.
Maybe the mods can set the time limit to once every few days or so for scoring on an individual instead of once an hour. There are also options like showing total positive and total negative rather than a net score.
The bottom line is that I suspect someone is playing a game with the privilege.
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I don't know who is doing it but it needs to stop.
I totally agree with you culpeper
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We'll figure it out ;)
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Mac, Culpeper,
I will IM you both regarding this thread before we get slapped on the wrist by a moderator, but I do want to comment.
As for Sygate and Avast, I use them together on my XP and have not had any problems at all.
Sygate, Windows98 and Avast did not seem to get along.
I was unable to obtain a proper shutdown. Sygate was the culprit here and I had to switch over to Zone Alarm.
ZA and Avast like each other fine!
techie