Hello friends,
I scanned this board for an answer but could fine none; sorry if I missed something.
I installed Avast Home edition 4.7 some weeks ago.
In general it works pretty well, however, several times a day the CPU usage goes to a 80-90% telling me ashwebsv.exe is taking about 30% or more. Web browsing has become impossible.
I have Windows XP, Windows firewall disabled and Ashampoo firewall installed. Program ashwebsv.exe has full rights (all ports) in the firewall configuration.
The only program that might (?) interfere is Windows Defender but I have no proof for this whatever.
When cpu usage is extremely high, the Avast icon is not spinning. I tried to kill all processes during this CPU overload but even when Avast was the only running process, CPU usage was still above 80%.
I configured Avast to give me detailled information about what files are being checked; during high CPU usage no file whatever is being checked. The only thing that helps is terminating the Net Shield and restart it (CPU is back to normal then). There is no interesting information in the Windows logs or in the Avast log. I also disabled VRDB generation but without any effect.
Any advice would be more than welcome because I really like Avast and would regret replacing it by (yet) another application.
Thanks in advance,
Joey