After monitoring my desktop for a few hours, the modifications to WebShield.ini did not remedy my problem.
AvastSvc.exe has crippled my system, and even affected Skype, causing it to have critical errors, and disallowing it to run properly.
I've uninstalled Avast through Revo Uninstaller Pro, then removed the remainder through Avastclear to ensure that it was completely removed.
I've even experienced this issue with the 2016 Beta. Upon installing it, my machine froze. After rebooting my machine, I was back to a crawl, thanks to AvastSvc.exe bogging down my system's entire resources.
Unfortunately, I've uninstalled Avast (yet again) and switched over to AVG until this matter gets resolved.
For those curious, I was running Avast 2015 on a custom-built desktop computer, running Windows XP, with Service Pack 3 installed.
My machine has a Maxtor hard drive, two gigabytes of RAM, an AMD Athlon (XP 2600) Processor at 2.08 GHz, and an American Megatrends Motherboard.
I realize that Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows XP, but my desktop is mainly used for audio production, and I've used Avast for ten years.
As I've said in my previous post, this problem began, late last Friday (October 16, 2015) so I'm assuming I've run into a bad update, or some kind of conflict in my machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Dr. Kosher