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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on December 02, 2014, 11:54:02 PM
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Hi,
I've been using the free version of Avast for a while now, and so far it's been pretty good. Unfortunately today when I installed the update, it started to behave very badly, pushing my HDD access to 100%. It was on a computer that I really need in a working state, so I had to uninstall it straight away before investigating exactly what was causing the problem.
From what I can remember Avast NG Frontend, Commandline and ngtool, and mft processes were causing most of the accesses, as was something under svchost, but I didn't check what. Superfetch was also started eating up a lot of resources.
The computer was a Dell laptop, running Win 8.1, with an i7 and 16GB of ram.
Do you guys think it would be possible to get Avast running on the laptop again?
Cheers,
Brian.
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Sure.
Install avast
Reboot
Let avast finish making the needed changes
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How confident are you in this?
This new install behaved very differently from previous ones. You haven't seen any issues with it anywhere else?
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Ofcourse it behaves different.
There is a new component called NG.
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There is a new component called NG.
Yes, I noticed that.
Thanks for the help anyway. I might wait until the next update before trying to re-install.
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Walshe.
yes it acted differently because of the new ng feature. There will be a lot of activity on the hard drive when you first install it, but once it's completed it will settle down. This is normal. There are a lot of posts regarding this on the forum.
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There is a new component called NG.
Eddy, does NG go thru all of its intensive efforts each reboot of PC or just once on reboot after 1st install ?