Hello all, greetings.
I have this slight problem with newer version of Avast, and it has been there since v4.7 update, and stayed there since.
I am regular usenet user, and for that I use two programs: Forte Agent, and NewsProxy. Forte Agent is usenet reader, and NewsProxy is somewhat of usenet proxy filter which can filter out messages by any header line, which kinda helps me in filtering out unwanted messages and servers. Both of them allow multiple connections to news server, and until now they both worked flawlesly.
In a last few days I noticed that when I am downloading bodies (not headers) of messages, CPU usage for ashMaiSv.exe process goes up to 100% cpu usage. Slows down everything. It didn't behave that way before, and it doesn't do that for mails, just usenet posts.
I don't have very fast connection (512k down), and it doesn't do much connections for downloading messages, only two. I guess something is wrong with that part of Avast.
I am using Avast for months now, and this is only bug I've encountered.
Ivan.