Its A Sign!

[BlindMelon7]

My computer occasionally freezes and makes bleeping noises when I scroll . I disabled Avast and it stopped. My AV also affects DVD playback. It makes it all jolty. I think its a sign that I need to go dual core .

[dave87]

Or get a decent AV?

NOD32 FTW

[MSIC]

The other thing is that the reason why anti-virus is probably slowing stuff down is due to constant hard drive access, rather than CPU load (as a rule).
Either the hard drive isn't working fast enough (drivers not correct, or technology too old) or the program is simply being over vigorous about reading & writing (more likely).
I am not sure than a dual core CPU would help the situation.
Change your anti-virus. I like AVG because it's free but you have to change one of the settings in update manager to not bother you with informing you of everything that it does.

[BlindMelon7]

I used to use AVG but when I changed to Avast I had about 15 viruses that AVG hadn't found. As for NOD32. I've heard that its good but I have no money and I any money I DO get will go towards new hardware. Considering I don't really go on any stupid sites and Avast hasn't picked up ANYTHING for the last month I think I will leave it disabled. Thanks.

BTW It probably isn't my Raptor but I do have lots of really old HDs.

[dave87]

BlindMelon - are you a student?

If so - you can get a discount, I think you have to email their sales line now tho - it used to be on the website.

[Rack]

Ebuyer do Kaspersky Internet Security OEM for £10. Great value. (or they did last time I bought it!)

[kalniel]

Check the scanning options - I found that the email scanner in AVG caused all manner of interference in games. I deleted it and didn't have a problem since. I don't even have email on this computer.. which might have been the problem