Recently Visual Studio 2013 began to take extremely long during startup. It took more than 10 minutes loading from a SSD drive which is simply unacceptable.
I narrowed the cause down to Avast (version 2014.9.0.2013) - to the "File System Shield" to be exact. After I disabled this module VS started up within seconds like before.
I made a
temporary work-around as I hope that the Avast team will find a solution to this problem. For that I tried to find out what's being loaded on VS startup and excluded the respective folders.
- Exclude the Visual Studio folder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0"
- Exclude additional folders of secondary/dependent components e.g. ...\Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SDK, etc. - by now I was down to 2.5 minutes
- Exclude "C:\Windows\assembly" so that .NET assemblies can be loaded. By doing that I fear I've made my system very vulnerable to attacks. However, VS now starts in 5 seconds.
This method seems to severely compromise my system's security. PLEASE AVAST TEAM, find a solution for efficiently loading .NET assemblies and the Visual Studio IDE. Right know I have to make an unacceptable trade-off between security and productivity.
Thanks and regards,
keanu81
