Hi all,
I have been using Avast for many years and have been a totally satisfied customer.
Recently my PC has been exhibiting strange behavior.
basic system specs are:
I7 2600k OC to 4.5GHz
16GB RAM
2x 240GB SSD RAID0 for boot
2x1TB 7200RPB WD Black RAID1 for data
Win 8.1 Enterprise
At first boot, I cannot connect to the internet for about 5 minutes or longer sometimes.
My C Drive utilization is pegged during this time at 100%
D Drive is 0-5%
Ram is using about 3GB
CPU about 10-15%
The process that is using the C Drive is the avast vbox
I am also getting tons of DNS errors in event viewer. I have done a ipconfig /flushdns and do not see any change.
After about 5-10 minutes, the C Drive goes back down to 0-5% and i can then open web sites and games work fine.
This behavior happens every single time I boot my PC.
I ended up uninstalling avast last night and the problem completly went away.
I read about the sandboxing feature and feel that for some reason, this is causing my issues.
Can I install Avast so i can get my full weekly scans, and basic web monitoring, but not run the sandboxing feature?
Let me know
Thanks
Brian
