I've just installed avast!, replacing AVG after their announcement to discontinue the free version. I'm much more impressed with avast! anyway, specially since it detected several worms that AVG allowed in! But I have a problem that I don't see this mentioned in any other threads....
Running the avast! main interface is causing 100% cpu utilisation! The mouse becomes extremely jerky etc. Task Manager shows ashSimpl.exe doing all the damage.
I tried adjusting the Resident Protection from default Standard to Low, and things got better. I then tried protection on High, and things were still OK(ish). Back on Standard and CPU is still OK(except see below)! Go figure!
But! When the mouse is anywhere within the avasti! UI, the mouse becomes jerky again, and CPU utilisation shoots up to 100%. In more detail, the non-active parts of the UI are OK (title bar and skin design area), but anywhere containing active elements generates the problem.
I have tried different skins but no difference. Translucent effects on or off makes no difference.
2.4Ghz, 512 RAM.
Screen res 1400x1050
WinXP Pro SP2, all available patches.
4.5.523
Anyone?