Here's what i've noticed.......after booting up PC, starting ThunderBird and receiving all my E-mail, Task Manager at times is showing that AvastSVC.exe is using 99% of the CPU........i have no idea why or what it's doing, but when this happens, all my functions slow down to a crawl. I have let my PC sit idle for an extended period of time, but Task Manager still shows AvastSVC.exe using 99% of the CPU (it appears stuck there). I know for a fact (proved this many times) that if i try to start up Firefox when AvastSVC.exe using 99% of the CPU it will take 4 mins or longer to bring it up. Conversely, if AvastSVC.exe is using little CPU, Firefox comes up in about 20 secs. If i reboot my PC this will normally clear up this problem.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Has anyone a resolution to this problem? How do we figure out why AvastSVC.exe is commandeering the lions share of the CPU when it shouldn't even be active? HELP!