Answer: 

Yes, anti-virus real-time scanning can cause performance issues. 

If experiencing slowness in AutoPIPE Vessel, see if turning off real-time scanning in your anti-virus helps.

AutoPIPE Vessel users may experience performance issues if their anti-virus uses a real-time scanning function.  Realtime scanning may constantly scan all disk activity.  This can cause the results of calculation being displayed in the user interface to be delayed due to the scanning of the RTF files.

There are numerous anti-viruses containing a real-time scanning function.  Windows also contains a real-time scanning utility, called Windows Defender Real-time Protection. 

If you do not wish to completely disable real-time scanning, we recommend adding exclusions for RTF files, EMVD files and Prodia2.exe in your Anti-Virus real-time scanning utilities. 

If you have questions regarding this, please discuss this with your System Administrator or IT Professional.

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