prevx + vlc portable = ridiculously frustrating

it takes about a minute to play video files using vlc media player because prevx scans the dll's during load, no other antivirus takes this long to scan vlc's dll's during start so what's going on here?? i have put up with it for far too long now

 

If you could please save a scan log by clicking Tools - Save Scan Results and send it to report@prevxresearch.com, we can whitelist its components to prevent it from scanning unnecessarily.

Thank you!

 

there are logs for real-time scanning?

 

All the applications on portableapps.com are safe and should be whitelisted.

 

Yes, they apply to normal scans and realtime scanning

 

i will reinstall to see if that fixes it. if not i will be back

 

I look forward to your feedback.

 

ok this is still happening.

i thought once prevx scans a program then it does not need to scan it again??

this time it took 3 mins to open vlc, disabling real time protection makes it open in half a second

and this is on an intel SSD by the way

can someone replicate this? just download vlc portable from portableapps.com and open a video file with it.

i suppose i could wait for version 4 if thats the only way this is going to get resolved

 

I never had a problem with any of both VLC versions and Prevx. I use to download them here (if it makes any difference):

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Current version is 1.1.7.

 

i got mine from portableapps.com but still, why is prevx scanning everytime i open it?

 

I have exactly the same problem. Prevx takes a long time to authenticate portable VLC's files.

 

Could you please also send a Prevx scan log to Prevx as suggested in post #2?

TIA,

TH

 

i mean this with the greatest respect but why cant someone from prevx just download and whitelist every single portable apps exe's and dll's?

hi trip

 

We do whitelist a large number of them but a scan log is the only way to be sure that we've whitelisted the exact files that you have installed.