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Recording and Behaviour Shield issues?
« on: April 05, 2017, 10:00:45 PM »
Well this isn't really much a issue more of a clarification if anything. Today i was recording with Fraps and halfway through my recording, Fraps dropped frames really badly. I don't think it was a issue with anything, except when i looked at the background processes, Avast Behavior shield was using up a bit of cpu and disk speed....

Idk if its just me.

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Re: Recording and Behaviour Shield issues?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2017, 08:12:30 AM »
TODAY I NOTICED THAT WHILE I HAD LET THE COMPUTER GO IDLE FOR 30 OR SO MIN. THE CPU WAS VERY ACTIVE. I OPENED THE TASK MANAGER AND FOUND THAT aswidsagenta.exe  WAS DRAWING 50% OF THE CPU. THIS DID NOT SEEM RIGHT SO ENTER END TASK AND I WAS REJECTED! AFTER SOME RESEARCH I FOUND THE EXE FILE WAS AVAST BEHAVIOR SHIELD RELATED. AFTER I FOUND THE BEHAVIOR SHIELD SETTINGS UNDER COMPONETS i WATCHED AND WAITED FOR ANY BEHAVIOR CHANGE FROM MY CPU. AFTER ALMOST AN HOUR I LOST PATIENCE AND UNINSTALLED THE SHIELD BECAUSE IT WAS HEATING UP MY CPU AND SHOWED NO SIGH OF STOPPING. IS THIS NORMAL BEHAVIOR? BECAUSE IF IT IS IT WILL NEVER GET LOADED AGAIN....SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED WITH MALWAREBYTES 3.0 RELEASE AND I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME TO BEATA CHECK MALWARE PROTECTION SOFTWARE . WHEN THIS ISSUE IT RESOLVED AND POSTED AS SOLVED I WILL TRY AGAIN.  GOOD HUNTING

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Re: Recording and Behaviour Shield issues?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2017, 08:27:12 AM »
TODAY I NOTICED THAT WHILE I HAD LET THE COMPUTER GO IDLE FOR 30 OR SO MIN. THE CPU WAS VERY ACTIVE. I OPENED THE TASK MANAGER AND FOUND THAT aswidsagenta.exe  WAS DRAWING 50% OF THE CPU. THIS DID NOT SEEM RIGHT SO ENTER END TASK AND I WAS REJECTED! AFTER SOME RESEARCH I FOUND THE EXE FILE WAS AVAST BEHAVIOR SHIELD RELATED. AFTER I FOUND THE BEHAVIOR SHIELD SETTINGS UNDER COMPONETS i WATCHED AND WAITED FOR ANY BEHAVIOR CHANGE FROM MY CPU. AFTER ALMOST AN HOUR I LOST PATIENCE AND UNINSTALLED THE SHIELD BECAUSE IT WAS HEATING UP MY CPU AND SHOWED NO SIGH OF STOPPING. IS THIS NORMAL BEHAVIOR? BECAUSE IF IT IS IT WILL NEVER GET LOADED AGAIN....SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED WITH MALWAREBYTES 3.0 RELEASE AND I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME TO BEATA CHECK MALWARE PROTECTION SOFTWARE . WHEN THIS ISSUE IT RESOLVED AND POSTED AS SOLVED I WILL TRY AGAIN.  GOOD HUNTING
Is there a reason to post in all capitals...it's regarded as shouting.

We're left in the dark as to what system you have and what version of Avast you are running :-\ the behaviour shield could likely be scanning some constant activity of a program on your system but as you've given us no information whatsoever we couldn't tell you what the problem might be ::)