Well in the statistics it shows files in "my documents" repeatably as being last scanned. Would windows indexing or something like that be searching/indexing folders and causing avast to scan the files there? Would disabling scan on read solve that and just keep it to scan on execute? I really only want it to scan on execute. And don't give me the usual anti-virus elitism I really don't ever get viruses and I know that sounds arrogant but I mean really if I get a exe or something from a site I don't trust ill just sandbox it, same with email attachments their not just going to run on their own so I would just sandbox them (with sandboxie), and if a trusted sites java or flash gets hijacked as has happened in the past apparently I'll just sandbox the browser (or re-enable noscript, but that thing is a pain sometimes). What I need is a lightweight antivius that has virtually no HD usage (I had a HD fail recently so I def want to kill anything that causes unnecessary read/writes) and is just on demand, if avast is the worst possible AV for this job then I guess I need to find another one.
A few changes to the file shield that I did is exclude read/writes for image/video/text files because if im using them as image/video/text files there should be no risk LOL (.docx and doc files aren't excluded because those can have those weird macro viruses or whatever and microsoft is just incompetent) and I've really never had or heard of a virus executing files hidden as media files in a different way, they would have to bundle themselves with the media files, download them, or create them, all of which have never happened in my experience. And I really just want on-demand, which means executing files in their intended fashion which makes those files safe in that way so no point in doing that, unless its going to find hidden al qaeda meta data in the media files, but that's for the NSA not a AV LOL. The only other excludes are my steamapps folders (no need to scan huge gigabyte files) and some trusted programs, especially ones that I never update even, so their safe in their frozen states.
Other than that I just turned off scan files when writing option but it didn't help since I saw random files get scanned again in history.
I have malwarebytes and avira and others but I only use them for manual scanning after updating if I ever find a virus so I can diversify scan definitions (I don't really like using those scan websites that supposedly have multiple definitions), so they are disabled and especially those 4 or 6 avira and spybot S&D services, such bloat. And I use comodo firewall for program leak protection or w/e (preventing things from accessing internet)
And to the other person I have those files backed up on 2 other drives I just keep them around because I haven't run out of space yet. And really the only things avast ever picks up is false positive keygens or cracks, which again ill either sandbox or find one without the "threat". I even had this AV and I think others detect some ".url" file(s) as viruses LOL... guess their making assumptions based on the websites they link to, which one of them was a harmless code repository website.
I've used computers for more than a decade I know how to not get infections, It's daft old people like my parents that I make sure use all of the bloat found in AV these days. So can we please just stay on topic?