Please forgive me for a question that has probably been asked a million times.
I tried a search but there are soooo many somewhat related threads.
Anyway, I was wondering if it is necessary to have the "Standard Shield on access scanner" to be doing it's thing every time I open a program....any program.
Like Photo Shop, Quicken, My Computer properties, device manager....well, you get the idea.
Any program I open of course causes the Avast ball to spin in my system tray and I've noticed a slowdown of opening these programs as a result.
I'm sorry this is such a lame question, but it's been a while since I used this program.
I also realize that's the whole idea is to be protected at all times, but when I know for a fact that my device manager isn't infected, why does the resident shield "ball have to spin" and slow down my opening of the program?
Forgive me for mentioning it, but why doesn't AVG slow things down as much?
Is it just because I can't actually see it doing it's thing?
I don't think so because I notice a definite slowdown.
I'll get used to it, but it's a little slower none the less.
Any way to have it leave my installed Programs alone while still protecting me from the big bad outside world?
Thanks for listening to this nonsense. My entire post probably makes very little sense.