posted also on my twitter
Avast! 8 antivirus owners with CPU spikes on STEAM client (while update of STEAM develiered games in progress)
You shall try add following exclusions to WEB SHIELD:
http://valve*.*.steampowered.com/depot/*
http://content*.steampowered.com/depot/*/chunk/*
that will solve quite extensive CPU spikes while updating differ byte delta patches of the games
unfortunately, there are also CPU spikes related to NETWORK SHIELD,
but this one has no own exclusions:
so you need add same entries into
GLOBAL exclusions (Avast's main settings)!