[Virtualacorn-list] Avast Free freezes VRPC

[Brian]

In article <8b280ca156.barry.punchard at barry.btinternet.com>,
   Barry Punchard <barry.punchard at btinternet.com> wrote:
> VRPC AdjustSA (v1.6) emulating Arm7500 freezes, then unfreezes up to 20
> secs later, when used under Win7 running Avast Free Anivirus software v.
> 17.8.2318 and previous version.

> Freezing can be eliminated or greatly reduced by turning off Avast's
> Behaviour Shield permanently, which I have been doing for many months. I
> had hoped the recent new Avast program version would sort this, but no
> luck.

> If the Shield is turned off while VRPC is running it causes an 'Unable
> to Create Primary Surface' failure under VRPC. That is, 'power Cycle' is
> needed to restart.

> Is anyone else getting this? If so, does turning off Behaviour Shield
> work for you? Or are there better options?

Err, well, you could try Webroot instead with say a free weekly check with
Malwarebytes.

Personally, haven't seen any similar behaviour that you report using Win 7
and VRPC RISC OS 4.02 with that setup.