When I was browsing some CDs to copy a few files it took forever as Avast was polling the drive to scan some files, and even causing explorer to hang as the hardware was not responding in time with the information. So for now I've added my cd-rom drives to the exclusion list, and this has not been an issue anymore.
There has to be a better, and safer way to do this. While you can't clean optical media, I would still like it to scan them, but in a lesser/quicker mode if even possible. Am I missing some obvious setting in the resident scanner?
XP Pro SP2 RC2(Clean install #2149, non-public build)
Duron 1.2ghz, 100mhz FSB, 512mb Ram
48x CD-RW
(Yes, I know I need to upgrade one of these days)
The HD, and CD drive are on different IDE channels so that is not an issue.
Thank you for your time