Avira Avira

[Thorin]

I have this old, old machine running Plex Media Server to stream video to my Roku.  Recently, it has gotten very slow (in the last few days).  It seems every time you tell it to do something, like open a new program, it takes forever to do so.

I figured the hard drive got pooched somehow, and thus every operation is slow because the hard drive is suddenly going ten times as slow.

Or maybe it's the memory?  I dunno, maybe a stick is bad and it can't read all the data properly.

No, that can't be it...

Well, this machine routinely gets used by others.  I have Avira installed to try and keep the basic viruses off.

Guess what?  Someone updated Avira and there was the old version of Avira and the new version running side by side!

So I uninstalled them both and just installed the new version.  Now everything is back to the normal speed (still slow, but not grit-your-teeth-and-scratch-nails-across-a-chalk-board slow).  Turns out having two antivirus programs intercepting every request for a disk interaction makes your machine SLOW RIGHT DOWN.

Actually, I knew this already, but I don't understand how anyone managed to install a new version of Avira alongside an old version of Avira...

[Mr. Analog]

After you got your install all set up did you create a backup image? (I'm guessing not?)

I suggest formatting the OS drive and doing a re-install, getting Plex on there and whatever codecs you use and making a backup image in case this happens again

[Tom]

Glad you got it working

[Darren Dirt]

there was the old version of Avira and the new version running side by side!


Turns out having two antivirus programs intercepting every request for a disk interaction makes your machine SLOW RIGHT DOWN.

Hey Melbosa, flashbacks of many years ago at NAIT on-site tech support eh!

[Thorin]

After you got your install all set up did you create a backup image? (I'm guessing not?)

I suggest formatting the OS drive and doing a re-install, getting Plex on there and whatever codecs you use and making a backup image in case this happens again

Nope. I don't have my drive split into multiple partitions, so there's no OS-specific drive to image. Everyone's My Docs folders point to the Drobo, though, so if ever the machines go tits-up we'll still have all our docs, pics, music, video, etc.

I was more worried about having to spend money and time putting in a new drive and seeing up all the accounts and programs again. Glad it turned out someone just double-installed a virus scanner.