Problems with "P2P shield" and uTorrent

[bpan]

Suddenly tonight "ashServ.exe" started using 99% CPU with uTorrent running.
Stopping all active torrents had no effect.
Had to disable avast "P2P Shield" to recover.
Running W2Kpro/SP4 on Celeron 2.5Ghz, 512MB...
Any ideas?
Why has this just happened now?
I've been running Avast 4.7 (Home ed) and uTorrent 1.7.2 for months now with
no problems.
This just "suddenly" happened tonight...
Am I being "hit" by a malicious torrent client?
Or could this be caused by a torrent with a very large number of seeders/peers?
(ie: too many connections saturating AVAST's capabilities?)

DO I EVEN NEED P2P SHIELD running with uTorrent???

WHAT DOES P2P SHIELD DO???

Anyone?

[Lisandro]

P2P is a specific provider that scans the files used (downloaded) by the P2P process.
The Standard Shield at High sensitivity level will do the same job (but the impact on performance will be felt too).

If you add C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashQuick.exe to the virus scan settings of uTorrent, when the file finish to download, it will be scanned.

[DavidR]

By default the uTorrent P2P box is unchecked in the P2P Shield now, because of what you mention the saturation of small file parts, etc.

So it is probably best if you uncheck the option to check uTorrent and if there is an option in uTorrent to scan the completed downloaded that would probably be best.

[E]

I know this might not be a good topic to ask in but what is one of the better root kit programs to keep on the desktop ? Somthing like Panda or AVG ?..

[DavidR]

There is nothing wrong with asking the question but it has nothing to do with this topic (considered hijacking) nor related to avast 4 home/pro, so it should really go in the General forum.

Short answer is what is wrong with having both.

However, they will be frequently updated so keeping it on your system would mean constantly updating them or there benefit is lessened being out of date. Some would say download the latest version if you feel that you might have a rootkit on your system.

[E]

Hmm, both on the desktop ? Never really thought of that simply because I just guessed that one of them would be sufficiant enough. Ok, thanks for the info, and I`ll make sure to ask about these sort of items on the appropiate board next time.

[DavidR]

Your welcome.

Since these are on-demand style applications there is no resource overhead other than the disk space and when you actually run them.

[MikeBCda]

Hmm, both on the desktop ?

I'm contributing to the off-topic problem again, sorry guys, but here's a suggestion for if your desktop's getting over-crowded.  Group categories of shortcuts (e.g., games, system utilities, internet, etc.) into desktop folders.  I do that, and even at 800x600 they take up less than 10% of my desktop.

[DavidR]

I don't put anything on my desktop, I use RocketDock for some very commonly used stuff. But mostly I create a shortcut in my quick launch toolbar. I have also created Two toolbars (see image) and they are packed with shortcuts and folder with stand alone programs that don't have to be installed.