WebShields or HTTP scanners delay

[laplapye]

I have utilized my computer quite for a moment devoid of Antivirus. I handed over my three year company laptop to my sister. Later than few times she asked what Antivirus we were utilizing, because someone at her work had ran into a slay disk virus. Although I told her we have photos and so on, on her backup unit and an extra copy at my desktop computer, she said she would be more relaxed while we had an Antivirus too. I never fight with my sister on problems she is not interested in, but does have estimation on it. So I said sure which one do you wish for? The recent past she told me her associate currently used Avast free. So I determined to set on Avast WebShields and Mail shield, only. She perceives the mail shield plug-in while starting Outlook and perceives Avast icon rotating while browsing, so that was sufficient visual feedback on having realized her needs. Not a serious Antivirus user myself, I all the time read regarding delays because of HTTP scanners or Internet or web shields. Thus I was surprised in the helpful way.

[Sabastiaan]

Antivirus as well slows down web browsing because it scans the files for example html, css (Cascading Style Sheets), pictures to be loaded into the browser. You can find the chart on Google to know this very well. In the chart it shows the delay. Minor number is better in this experiment.
Sophos Endpoint Security and Control v9.5 Antivirus: The On-access scanning feature that is enabled by default smashed this test because it was not capable to complete loading the list of websites.

[Visala28]

I not at all made use of HTTP scanners, but I do have family members to who I have organized antivirus with HTTP scanner constituent enabled, and not at all were any obvious slowdowns. What could occur is that a few HTTP scanner, due to truly awful coding, could slay your downloads at few point. I have experienced that in the long-ago, while annoying them out. Not at all with Avast or AVG, though.

[teenQ]

My anxiety is that lacking the File shield, if she plugs-in an impure USB flash drive, she would contaminate her laptop. Lacking the Files shield, Avast won't be capable to scan the USB Flash drives she obtains from colleagues or friends. As a minimum one her work computers was impure in recent times. Mostly possible won't be the last. I would recommend you think about installing the Avast File shield on your sister’s laptop.