[Virtualacorn-list] Avast Free freezes VRPC

[Brian]

In article <ba8f14a156.barry.punchard at barry.btinternet.com>,
   Barry Punchard <barry.punchard at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 26 Nov          bbailey at argonet.co.uk wrote:

> > In article <8b280ca156.barry.punchard at barry.btinternet.com>, Barry
> >    Punchard <barry.punchard at btinternet.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> Thanks Brian, I've used a range of AV software, paid and unpaid and seen
> little advantage with paid programs - often worse. Even when I find one
> that is OK, it is soon 'upgraded' to an unusable state. I haven't seen
> Webroot appear with good reviews in Top 5/10 lists, so I'd prefer to
> avoid a frying pan to fire experience. But thanks for the thought.

I know exactly what you mean. For me Kaspersky was absolutely the bees
knees for ages, then it became an absolute nightmare when it received a
major overhaul and upgrade. The PC became virtually unusable.

> The Primary Surface problem has plagued me through 3 PCs - laptops and
> desktop, 3 OSs XP, Vista & 7, and VRPCs versions over many years. I got
> rid of it with one of the PC side Video driver updates, but it then
> returned with the next PC. I can reliably reproduce it by going into PC
> task manager while VRPC is running. Although this and the hanging are
> often seen in a similar time frame, I don't think they are closely
> related. 

Best wishes

Brian