I'm disappointed to see no answers at all for my questions.
In the meantime, I learned 2 more things about this:
1. While the program is scanned, AVG pops up a console window where the program output is redirected–very annoying and to some extent scary.
2. Today, I had a program that was already scanned subject to another scan. So it's not just a single scan for a program after all.
Anyway, turns out this is a new feature, called CyberCapture, that's causing this, and it can be disabled. Which I did. I did that reluctantly, as it sounds like a great feature, from what I read about it on the Internet. But it's just too annoying to my taste.
Since yesterday's update of AVG Free, which required a system restart, whenever I invoke some program, AVG delays its startup by some 10 to 15 sec and pops up a message about the program being scanned. After the delay, the program continues working as usual. This seems to happen once for every program I run.
My questions:
1. Why is AVG suddenly scanning my programs, which didn't change in many weeks or even years? It never did that before (I've been a happy user of AVG Free for years).
2. Will this happen after every restart, or are the results of the scan recorded in some persistent database that will not disappear when I restart the system? (I've looked at the relevant options, but the explanations there are unclear: it sounds like the scan results are kept persistently only for "digitally signed" applications, whereas most of the programs I use were built by myself by compiling from sources, so I doubt they are considered "digitally signed".)
3. Is there any way I can instruct AVG Free to scan all the programs in directories on my Path, so that these annoying delays don't happen afterwards during routine usage of my system?
In case it matters, this is a Windows XP SP3 system, and the disk drive where most of the programs reside is an SSD disk.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm disappointed to see no answers at all for my questions.
In the meantime, I learned 2 more things about this:
1. While the program is scanned, AVG pops up a console window where the program output is redirected–very annoying and to some extent scary.
2. Today, I had a program that was already scanned subject to another scan. So it's not just a single scan for a program after all.
Anyway, turns out this is a new feature, called CyberCapture, that's causing this, and it can be disabled. Which I did. I did that reluctantly, as it sounds like a great feature, from what I read about it on the Internet. But it's just too annoying to my taste.