Well it is a bug of some sorts, what else would it be? At least what I can tell, it doesn't seem to affect to the program itself at anyway. And the processes aren't there always... When I open my PC, there's only one , but when the program updates itself (propably virus definitions and some other stuff what it does at boot), then the other processes show up. It's kinda weird, almost intentional. And what I've been reading, it's nothing new either! So the main question is, why they don't fix it? You would think, that they know this issue by now. And the answer should not be, that you must clean uninstall Avast and then reinstall it. That should never be the answer! Are here in the forums any Avast developers or representatives? Could they shed some light to the matter?