Vipre and SPF installed. Hard drive light stays solid 90% of the time.

Over the past 2 months, my computer has slowed to a crawl with both Viper with Active Protection and the Sunbelt Personal Firewall enabled with web filtering. After checking this forum and another, I first went into Settings in Vipre and disabled "Include low risk programs (this also applies to Active Protection) in the Scan tab. After I applied this change, there was a slight improvement in performance, although the hard drive light still stayed on and steady for most of the time.

Then I went to the Active Protection tab in Settings and unchecked "Check files when they are opened or copied". Once I applied this setting, my hard drive light IMMEDIATELY changed from 'always on' to only on when I was having the computer do some activity. Additionally, the performance increased SIGNIFICANTLY. This leads me to believe my biggest problem was with that Active Protection setting. When looking at the settings in Task manager, the largest user of I/O Read and I/O Write bytes is SBAMSvc.exe, with 69,488, 418,413 and 34,051,934,400 respectively.

I also turned off the Web Filtering feature in SPF, which seemed to help a little bit but nothing improved my situation until I disabled the "Check files when they are opened or copied", leading me to believe there is something amiss with the Active Protection and checking opened or copied files.

Hopefully this will help some people to improve their resource usage issues until the issue is resolved.