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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: crow on August 09, 2009, 01:17:18 AM

Title: Delaying the loading of avast! services after other system services
Post by: crow on August 09, 2009, 01:17:18 AM

Hi
Question: Does the delaying function of the  of avast! loading after other system services affects or degrades any of Avast functions?
Thanks

Title: Re: Delaying the loading of avast! services after other system services
Post by: DavidR on August 09, 2009, 01:23:12 AM

Other than when it starts no, the delay is measured in fractions of a second I would think as it only waits for windows system services.

I don't know why you would want to do this (or ask unless it is your intention to try it) as you want avast to start as soon as possible ?

Since that option is in the troubleshooting section, that is its purpose to be used if you are experiencing specific problems and you haven't mentioned anything.

Title: Re: Delaying the loading of avast! services after other system services
Post by: Lisandro on August 10, 2009, 01:45:58 AM

We can say that you can delay avast loading without degrading the protection.

Title: Re: Delaying the loading of avast! services after other system services
Post by: crow on August 10, 2009, 08:42:27 AM

Quote from: Tech on August 10, 2009, 01:45:58 AM

We can say that you can delay avast loading without degrading the protection.

What about the boot scan and the rootkit scan done in the boot process?aren`t these delayed or skipped ?

Title: Re: Delaying the loading of avast! services after other system services
Post by: DavidR on August 10, 2009, 03:41:08 PM

The boot-time scan doesn't happen in a conventional windows boot, so any resident scanning starts as soon as avast starts and as I said that delayed start is in fractions of a second, so anything would be minimal.

The rootkit scan doesn't happen on boot, but 8 minutes 'after' boot as if this happens to early you might not have any rootkit active to detect.