Hello,
Yesterday I got my Avast upgrade to version 17 on my notebook. Meanwhile I have two virtual machines running on VMware workstation 12. One is Ubuntu 14.04 and another one is Windows XP.
The Win XP machine was installed a week ago, which is a pure Windows XP Professional with all windows update until 12/2016 and the newest Firefox browser. No additional software installed yet. It ran smoothly until Avast is updated on my host.
After the antivirus was upgraded, my Win XP machine become extremely unresponsive, which took 5 minutes to boot into desktop, every controls took several second to get response. However, my Ubuntu VM is working fine.
I tried to reinstall VMware workstation or even tried to create new WinXP VM on both VMware workstation and Virtualbox. All of them run slowly. Then I uninstalled Avast and now all VM run normally.
So there must be something related to Avast. Could anyone help?
Terry