Avast Showing up #1 in Bandwidth Usage

[dbush]

Starting yesterday Avast has started showing up #1 in bandwidth usage on my CIPA filter.  My limited bandwidth is pegged.  Anybody know why this would be occurring or what is being downloaded from Avast? This is a Microsoft update week I know which may be exacerbating the problem.

Dan

[Eddy]

As avast scans the network traffic, it often looks as if avast is causing it while it isn't.

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We are actually having a problem with Avast too. We have more bandwidth so it's not crippling us right now but it's not good.

Monday Avast.com = ~100 MB
Tuesday Avast.com = 10 GB
Today (Wed.) Avast.com = 180 GB (and counting)

Something is definitely messed up!

I hope they get it fixed soon.
-Eric

[Eddy]

It can be have to do with the merger of avast and avg for instance the combining of the databases.
Best you can do is to contact avast > https://support.business.avast.com/hc/en-us

[.: Mac :.]

Are either of you using an on-premise console or the Cloud based console?

If on-premise, is the traffic coming from the server running the Avast Mirror?

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On-Premise AEA Console. Clients set to receive updates through local mirror. The traffic seems to be coming from all of the clients and not just from the mirror server.
Below is a snippit of our server log:
[2016/12/15 13:56:32.659,5020] Removing socket 0x0000054C after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:32.659,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:35.170,2868] Some client requests connection...
Last message repeated 2 time(s)
[2016/12/15 13:56:36.730,5020] Removing socket 0x00000454 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:36.730,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.727,5584] Engine is not handled, probably out of licenses...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.727,5584] sqlFreeConnection with fReturnToPool=false (error handler)
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.727,5584] SQL Server connection has been destroyed...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.774,5584] New connection to SQL server has been created...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.774,5584] Engine is not handled, probably out of licenses...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.774,5584] sqlFreeConnection with fReturnToPool=false (error handler)
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.774,5584] SQL Server connection has been destroyed...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.789,5584] New connection to SQL server has been created...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.789,5584] Engine is not handled, probably out of licenses...
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.789,5584] sqlFreeConnection with fReturnToPool=false (error handler)
[2016/12/15 13:56:38.789,5584] SQL Server connection has been destroyed...
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.724,5020] Removing socket 0x0000054C after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.724,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.817,5020] Removing socket 0x00000414 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.817,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.895,5020] Removing socket 0x00000418 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.895,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.895,5020] pThis->m_dwFree >= FD_SETSIZE
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.895,5020] Terminating listener loop
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.895,5020] Quiting CListener::Listener() thread with 0x00000000 error code...
[2016/12/15 13:56:40.895,5020] Destroying handle to listener thread
[2016/12/15 13:56:41.722,2868] Some client requests connection...
Last message repeated 1 time(s)
[2016/12/15 13:56:43.735,5584] New connection to SQL server has been created...
[2016/12/15 13:56:45.747,3800] Removing socket 0x00000444 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:45.747,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:47.837,3800] Removing socket 0x00000414 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:47.837,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:47.837,3800] pThis->m_dwFree >= FD_SETSIZE
[2016/12/15 13:56:47.837,3800] Terminating listener loop
[2016/12/15 13:56:47.837,3800] Quiting CListener::Listener() thread with 0x00000000 error code...
[2016/12/15 13:56:47.837,3800] Destroying handle to listener thread
[2016/12/15 13:56:54.062,2868] Some client requests connection...
[2016/12/15 13:56:58.071,5936] Removing socket 0x00000324 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:56:58.071,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:56:58.071,5936] pThis->m_dwFree >= FD_SETSIZE
[2016/12/15 13:56:58.071,5936] Terminating listener loop
[2016/12/15 13:56:58.071,5936] Quiting CListener::Listener() thread with 0x00000000 error code...
[2016/12/15 13:56:58.071,5936] Destroying handle to listener thread
[2016/12/15 13:56:59.896,2868] Some client requests connection...
Last message repeated 2 time(s)
[2016/12/15 13:57:03.906,4220] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:57:03.906,4336] Removing socket 0x00000590 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:57:04.779,2868] Some client requests connection...
[2016/12/15 13:57:05.918,4336] Removing socket 0x0000054C after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:57:05.918,4220] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:57:06.714,2868] Some client requests connection...
[2016/12/15 13:57:07.915,4336] Removing socket 0x00000444 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:57:07.915,4220] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:57:09.007,2868] Some client requests connection...
[2016/12/15 13:57:09.927,5584] Engine is not handled, probably out of licenses...
[2016/12/15 13:57:09.927,5584] sqlFreeConnection with fReturnToPool=false (error handler)
[2016/12/15 13:57:09.927,5584] SQL Server connection has been destroyed...
[2016/12/15 13:57:09.943,4336] Removing socket 0x00000590 after MSG_DISCONNECT
[2016/12/15 13:57:09.943,5584] MSG_DISCONNECT processing...
[2016/12/15 13:57:10.738,1796] Going to delete expired requests....
[2016/12/15 13:57:10.738,1796] New connection to SQL server has been created...
[2016/12/15 13:57:11.752,1796] Closing handle to previous flushing thread...

[.: Mac :.]

There are several references to being out of licenses. Can you confirm that all clients have a license? In AEA, clients with no license will have a Key over their status icon