Ashserv.exe running at 99% cpu

[Neilh57]

Help.

I have Avast home 4.6

This morning my pc ground to a halt while Ashserv.exe was using 99% cpu time.
Even after a reboot, the same situation occurs.

Any idea's anyone

[Vlk]

Is the avast blue ball tray icon spinning?

[Neilh57]

Vik,

Thanks for the speedy reply.

The problem seems to have stopped as mysteriously as it had started. It lasted about 40 minutes in all and during that time, I didn't see the blue ball spinning, but to be honest I wasn't watching for that all the time.

Any ideas what happened?

[Vlk]

This could've been caused by a number of reasons. E.g.

- a background scan (maybe you have scheduled one?)
- VRDB generator (although this should only be activated when the computer is "idle" by default)
- on-access scanner scanning some files (e.g. the P2P shield scanning a large download?)