Computer had been getting sluggish and flaky. So bad that I dared to run ComboFix, world's most aggressive anti virus. Combo Fix didn't find much, but it did demand I shut down Avast's active virus scanner, 'cause it was interfering with ComboFix. The only way I could find to shut down Avast was to uninstall it. The Avast uninstaller whined a lot and took forever, but it did get Avast off the machine.
After killing off Avast, Trusty Desktop is perceptibly more lively. He is an older machine, but he has a 2.19 gigahertz processor and nearly a gigabyte of RAM, not too shabby, even today. He is still running XP, which is leaner and meaner than the later Micro$oft offerings.
These virus scanners hook onto the network port, and inspect every packet, in coming and out going, which slows your internet a lot. It was really showing up running Firefox. Downloads were flaky, and Firefox would freeze for long enough to irritate the bejesus out of me. Getting rid of Avast cleaned up a lot of that.
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