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Offline tripod2go

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multiple .MAD processes
« on: December 14, 2012, 04:42:54 PM »
I have multiple .mad processes running.  Is there a reason this is normal?  OSX 10.6.8 
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Re: multiple .MAD processes
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2012, 08:11:20 PM »
You should have exactly 2 running. The reason is the VPS update mechanism. If there are more com.avast.MAD processes on your machine, then there is something wrong  (a reboot should fix it).
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Re: multiple .MAD processes
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2012, 12:38:36 PM »
Quote from: tumic on December 19, 2012, 08:11:20 PM
You should have exactly 2 running. The reason is the VPS update mechanism. If there are more com.avast.MAD processes on your machine, then there is something wrong  (a reboot should fix it).

Exactly, there should be 2 MAD processes per each atively-used VPS version. So when you start full system scan, taking 10 hours, and meanwhile new vps is downloaded, you'll see 2+2 MAD processes (each pair can be considered a "guard" + "worker" - but only worker performs cpu-hungry actions, when scanning).

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