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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: HS2234 on May 18, 2013, 04:03:58 PM

Title: Avastsvc taking Huge amounts of cpu
Post by: HS2234 on May 18, 2013, 04:03:58 PM
AvastSVC was aking like 70-80% of my cpu when I was not doing anything om my computer.
Title: Re: Avastsvc taking Huge amounts of cpu
Post by: Aventador on May 18, 2013, 04:33:52 PM
What other security are you using along side Avast if any?
Title: Re: Avastsvc taking Huge amounts of cpu
Post by: HS2234 on May 18, 2013, 04:42:18 PM
None, I reinstalled avast to see if it works. I have a feeling it was because I checked scan all files in the File Sheild
Title: Re: Avastsvc taking Huge amounts of cpu
Post by: ComputerRepairTech on May 18, 2013, 11:32:58 PM
Well...if there was a lot of hard drive activity going on scanning all files with the field shield would increase cpu usage.
Title: Re: Avastsvc taking Huge amounts of cpu
Post by: Para-Noid on May 18, 2013, 11:49:41 PM
I checked scan all files in the File Sheild
That will do it.