Recent content by canope

I've already write this upper ( my 1.5 Tbyte drive) ...

the 200 GB in 30 minutes have been generated by the weekly file scanning of my Windows USB3 HDD used with Parallel desktop VM. I have the disk natively available thru OS X and scanned from OS X for being sure to have and antivirus not tampered at windows level.

no, netflix generate 3Gbytes per hours.

To complet, the Avast engines seem to be designed for HARDDRIVE computers . They rely extansively to disk I/O for every actions....

the analysis and the associated commands and results have been posted in the avast forum .

Avast plan to correct the behaviour for the little files ( even 4kbyte). They writed this in the post. i've done the analysis with dtrace and iosnoop and yes, it's only avast. The web filtre analysis engine is even worst ( check at the begin of the post). it's download locally in /tmp all...

the 200 Gbyte have been write in less than 30 minutes...

No... i dont agree.... It's a BUG as admitted by Avast ( i think you're working for them). check the weblink ans stop with this kind of bullshit.

i've scheduled a classical weekly analysis of my NTFS drive used for my Windows 8.1 VM.... 1.5 Tbytes of data... Avast have acknowledged the issue ( check the forum). even a tiny little file of 4kbyte is copied in the /tmp folder before scanning ..... I've stopped this after having found...

Hi , yes and i didn't see anything regarding the I/O issue with Avast.

you should consider to review your statement regarding Avast For Mac 2015. It kill the SSDs of our Macs . The point is under discussion in the Official Avast For Mac forum: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=170750.0 the only solution today is to remove it as i understand....