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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: ZeNiX on March 21, 2012, 11:02:49 AM

Title: afwServ.exe CPU load 50% and 745MB memory [AIS 7.0.1426 on Win7 x64]
Post by: ZeNiX on March 21, 2012, 11:02:49 AM

I am sure this is not normal, but have no idea how to solve the problem.

Perhaps I should downgrade to Avast PRO version?

My CPU is dual core, so it takes up 50% of load.
The situation made me feel the system is freezed several times.
I have to cold boot the system without saving the opened files.

Title: Re: afwServ.exe CPU load 50% and 745MB memory [AIS 7.0.1426 on Win7 x64]
Post by: true indian on March 21, 2012, 11:16:11 AM

are u a new avast user?

does avast eat 50% of the CPU all the time when the pc is on for u?

Title: Re: afwServ.exe CPU load 50% and 745MB memory [AIS 7.0.1426 on Win7 x64]
Post by: Pondus on March 21, 2012, 12:09:32 PM

do you have any other security programs installed ?
what AV did you use before installing avast ?
have you uninstalled it ?

Title: Re: afwServ.exe CPU load 50% and 745MB memory [AIS 7.0.1426 on Win7 x64]
Post by: ZeNiX on March 22, 2012, 02:08:34 AM

Quote from: Pondus on March 21, 2012, 12:09:32 PM

do you have any other security programs installed ?
what AV did you use before installing avast ?
have you uninstalled it ?

This is a brand new installed Windows 7 x64.
But I did not turn off firewall of Windows when I install Avast 7.0.1426.

Does it matter?
Should I go and turn off windows' firewall?

I checked another computer which is Windows XP x86 with AIS 6.0.1367.
afwServ.exe takes 0%CPU with 4MB memory.
This is satisfatory.