Hi,
A few days ago I noticed that my two computers experienced some freezes from times to times; simply opening the explorer or viewing a large (2 MB) text file in Notepad may trigger the freeze.
When I check the CPU usage with process explorer, it appears that the avast! standard shield (ashServ) takes 90 to 100% CPU at that moments.
When I stop or suspend the standard shield no freeze occur.
I completely uninstalled/reinstalled avast! home v4.7.942, nothing changed.
It seems related to the last build of avast! , until two weeks ago I was using a previous version and no freeze had occured.
My computers specs are : first : a desktop with dual core 4 GHz, 2 GB Ram ; 2nd : a laptop with Pentium Mobile, 1.6 GHz, 512 MB RAM.
Both are running WinXP + SP2, no software firewall, no anti-spyware application.
Any idea is welcome so that I can use my computers like one month ago, smoothly !
Tia,
Cedric