Sometime after the latest update, Avast had an error and now the tray icon is unresponsive. avastui.exe and avastsvc.exe are taking up all my CPU, roughly 40% each.
I don't particularly want to restart Windows every time Avast has an issue, so how do I shut down and restart Avast, when avastui is stuck and unresponsive?
Surely there's a way? I searched around for a while but couldn't find any mention of how to do that.
If it's not possible and I need to restart, can someone tell me how to permanently disable the self-defence module so I can kill/restart the process if this happens again (at least until I feel confident it's stable again)?