I am using avast! version 4.7 Home Edition build Sep2007 (4.7.1043) on a Windows XP SP2 system.
I run a nightly full scan on all my local hard disks. The last few days my system has been crashing overnight while the scan has been running.
I believe that it may be due to my having run the VMWare player. Even when the player is stopped, a number of processes relating to VMWare continue to run and will do so until the computer is re-started. I think that the crash occurs when avast is scanning the files related to these processes. After killing these VMWare processes, from TaskManager the scan runs through without an issue.
Has anyone else experienced this?