Ok, so I'll admit that I'm not very knowledgeable with this antivirus stuff. I had used Norton ever since a few months ago when my subscription ran out yet again. I was going to renew it but then found out about avast. I was happy to find out there there is FREE antivirus protection out there!
I dowloaded v.4.7 about a month ago. I didn't really notice anything at first, but in the past week or so, getting anywhere online had been taking SOOOOO long. Some websites I go to took several minutes to load, and sometimes they never loaded and I got an error page. I tried pausing the Web Shield today, and it fixed everything! I mean, now I'm back to the fast internet I'm used to. So...why is this? Should I keep the Web Shield off? Or is that risky? If it is dangerous, then how can I stay safe AND fast? Please help! Oh, some info...I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop - it's a little over 2 years old. I have Windows XP. I'm not sure what else you'd need to know to help...let me know. Thank you very much for taking the time to read this
