I did manually add exceptions of the file and it made no difference. If that is all that was required I would be ok with it. The only way to get it to load fast is to Turn off Avast File protections completely meanging no AV for the entire computer. Only behavior and web protections can be active. Not a great choice.
Even more reason to report it to AVG, might even worth contacting their support directly. This sounds like a bug in their software.
And what is GPU-Z 2.46 doing differently to cause this strange behavior that older version do not do?
Nothing I can think of. These are the changes since 2.44
v2.46.0 (May 5th, 2022)
Added support for AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT
Improved Intel ARC support
Added support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 (GA107), NVIDIA A30
Updated driver to no longer require SSE2 compatible CPU
Fixed 2022 AMD drivers being reported as "Crimson"
Fixed Resizable BAR detection on systems with AGP card
Fixed "email me my validation id" not sending any email
Added support for iGPU on Alder Lake Mobile
Added support for Glenfly GPU
v2.45.0 (March 25th, 2022)
Added support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 3060 Ti (GA103), RTX 3080 Ti Mobile, T1000 8 GB, T400 4 GB, CMP 170HX, A16, A2
Added support for AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6800S, RX 6700S, RX 6850M XT, RX 6650M, RX 6650M XT, W6400, Barcelo APU, Rembrandt APU, Steam Deck GPU, Barco MXRT 270
Added preliminary support for Intel Arc Alchemist
Fixed NVIDIA Ampere memory size not being reported as power of two
Improved support for Intel Alder Lake
Fixed memory clock detection on Alder Lake
Fixed GA106 transistor count
Added support for HBM and DDR4 memory on NVIDIA