fardbark27

Yeah I guess that's a better workaround for my current situation and I'll prob do that so thanks. But I'm still hoping for a better answer - I have been a customer and vocal 'net promotor' of ESET and NOD32 for almost 15yrs and never had this problem before, its recent.

Recently I have found that when a virus sig update triggers a startup scan, it seems to block or at least severely slow my web traffic down to the point that browsers are unusable. Usually I will find the browser tabs have stopped responding and immediately I can check the tray and confirm that I find NOD32 running a startup scan which in turn seems to have been triggered by a virus signature update. If I pause protection suddenly my network traffic returns unfettered. For now I have turned off HTTP protection and that seems to solve it, but of course I am not thrilled to have to do that. Could it be that NOD32 gets backlogged or hung a file scan for a few moments and when it does the network requests are queuing up because of that? At the moment the update-triggered scheduler entry for Startup Scan runs at lowest priority - I am wondering if that needs to be bumped up so that the process doesn't get hung up? Thanks in advance for any input/ideas. Details: Lenovo X1 Carbon with Win 7 x64 w/ NOD32 v.8.0.304 aka latest update as of this writing...