Anti-virus software can be disruptive to LASR in two ways:

1. Hogging Resources: Background scans and other funtions that your anti-virus does without your consent or knowledge can hog your computers resources and slow LASR down.

2. Disrupting installation or updates: This one is a major headache. LASR is code signed (certified safe). It is NOT malicious in any way. But, that makes little difference to the detection systems used by the various third party anti-virus softwares out there as they seem to randomly decide what to block and what not to. Some of them (cough::AVG:cough) have even been seen to uninstall and delete files that LASR uses and needs, during updating, without informing the user.


"So what am I saying?" Turn it off when using LASR, if it is causing an issue. Especially while installing, updating, or activating plugins (the things that require LASR to have an internet connection, and will cause LASR to catch your AV's attention)

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but most anti-virus software is little more than a white/grey/black list system. We know this because we contacted several different makers of AV software to ask what we could do to stop tripping it. The answer was (literally, 7 out of 8 times) to tell them the URLs and file names we use so they could whitelist it. LASR is now whitelisted with several manufacturers including McAfee, Norton, and AVG.

The best anti-virus is common sense. Don't download "free" stuff from the internet, don't visit adult sites, and don't click on links from Nigerian princes offering you millions of some foreign currency :)