Forums Bug Reports Mirc 6.16 freezes/hangs with DCC

Hey Fellow mIRC users, my problem is this..

I have a P4 2.6Ghz with 1024 m/b ram
Windows XP w/ SP2
Latest updates.
I use avast AV.

When I'm downloading through DCC & the file completes or gets disconected etc (usually larger files) mIRC will hang/freeze for about 10 minutes & it'll boot me out of rooms etc..

I don't use the default download folder.
I've searched these forums.
I've tried reinstalling

try disabling avast before the download is complete

I'll try that.. but only problem is I'm not always on the computer & don't wanna leave AV off for to long. What AV do you use?
Thanks for your reply

i use norton 2004, and that physically halts the program thats downloaded the file until the scan is complete, so with zipped files which contain lots of files, it takes a long time to scan, so norton halts mirc for a long time.
There should be an option to add a file extention to be ignored by auto scan (least there is in norton), i use that when i'm sent any files with a lot of smaller files in it.

I was only assuming avast did something similar because thats the problem i get with norton, apart from that i'm afraid i can't help any further. there might be some suggestions somewhere on the forum if you search.

well i guess it is better for you to don't dl big files.
I guess it is not a home made video...

not that i want this to turn into a warez debate, but depending on what you are doing, norton (and i assume any other anti virus that halts the program) can do it with really small files, EG, a copy of a website, including all the images, can total several hundred files but be less than a few MB, which takes time to scan, especially if your PC is slow.

it might be due to winsock registry corruption. check out these links:
http://dly.free.fr/site/article.php3?id_article=1

it's been originally discussed here:
https://forums.mirc.com/s...=true#Post88396

tell me if it fixes your problem.

ummm this thread is like 1 year and 5 months old, lagging are we?