My company decided to move from McAfee to Avast and I installed the latest version (NOT free version, Avast Business Antivirus Pro Plus 19.5.2563 (build 19.5.4444.503)) few days go. From that I started to have a series of problems which I never had before:
Slype became very slow expecially in skype calls, and the VPN with other companies became quite unusable.
I found out that as part of the installation there were also Avast Securline VPN. After having disabled that, skype and VPN went back working fine.
Then after a couple of days I needed to use a VM under VMWARE with Windows XP, which I use quite often-
The VM showed to be very very slow (like 10 minutes to start up and in general tens of times slower than usual), initially I did not think about AVAST (as I was running anyhow an unusual CPU consuming activity), searching for issue on how to speed up VMWARE when running high CPU consuming tasks.
Then suddendly I gave a shot to search for VMWARE and AVAST together and found this (and other similar) forum,
I deactivate the flag on the Hardware-Assisted Virtualization and the VM went back to sanity, running the tasks in about 50 times faster.
What honestly looks to me not acceptable is the fact that the answer from AVAST to this problem is "just deactivate the flag" and this issue is there from several years and I did not have it in the former Antivirus.
So far in few days I have needed to disable 2 features of the Avast product for being able to do my job, I would like to use the feature I pay for if they provide more safety to my laptop, and not just renounce to them.
THanks. Stefano.
