Avast 4.8 is slowing down my computer, websites are loading much slower

[gapco1]

Avast 4.8 edition has antispyware, anti rootkit detection added which had caused following:

I have tried and downloaded twice latest edition of avast once directly from website and once through the programme update. Both times any window I open takes time to load and any website I go to takes 3 times slower to load and the page to open. When I type the name of the website it takes about cca 3 seconds for the address to appear in the address field. If I need to type some text or log on to some website usually my cursor is showing sand clock once the page has been loaded I type tect or name etc and then it takes a few seconds for that text/numbers to appear in that particular field. I tried to turn off all antispyware software and realtime protection but it did not make any difference. I do have only one antivirus protection installed and that is avastThis is the direct cause of the avast 4.8 because when I went back to 4.7 it worked fast like a speed of light. I have been extremely satisfied with the previous version (4.7) however the latest one uses more cpu when I go to task manager. The issue is very similar to the case with the mozilla browser in the past. I have recommended Avast to all people I know and I would be really sad if this issue could not be resolved by Avast programmers which would make my internet browsing really painfull experience.

[DavidR]

I don't see any of the issues you mention with 4.8 on my system, which is no speed freak.

Can you give us some information about your system ?

[JTKWales1981]

Ive just started having the same problem with 4.8.

Ashserv.exe is using around 53% of my CPU.

[gapco1]

DavidR

I have 1.6 processor, 512 Mba Ram, Win XP pro service pack 2.

[DavidR]

@ JTKWales1981
Your system is more than up to the task.

What were you doing when this went up ?
You could enable the 'Show detailed info on performed actions' in Standard Shield, Customize, Advanced, this is off by default, and could point to an application accessing files and that would trigger an avast scan

@ gapco1
Whilst your system is a little bit less than mine, depending on what you also have running in the background 512MB of RAM might be a little low, it could result in swapping memory to the swapfile, which could have an impact.

But, I honestly can't see how there is a slow display of what is typed (that certainly isn't scanned by avast), so I can't account for why this is resolved by uninstalling avast, other than you would now have more resources.

There are many who are on older OSes like win98 which have a lessor spec than your system so they to would have problems if it were totally avast 4.8, so I'm at a loss as to what to suggest.

[alanrf]

Next to this machine I have my old XP SP2 system with a 1GHz processor and 512M of memory.  I am running avast 4.8 on it and it has been doing overtime pressed into testing of the new 4.8 release of avast. 

On that system I am not seeing any of the issues you mention.

In addition to the questions and suggestions from DavidR can I also ask which avast providers you are running and at what level you have them set (Normal or High)? 

[cavehomme]

I have had this problem in the past few days, but seems like it might be an issue with an MS update possibly, or with Internet Explorer 7 specifically. Only guessing but made all the difference on mine. If you think its relevant for you, here are is the summary......

There are still many issues with IE7 software, even does not work correctly with some Microsoft products such as Sharepoint!!!

Basically I uninstalled IE7 (rebooted) plus IE7 security updates plus IE6 security updates (rebooted again) .

Then I ran the command  inside these quotation marks "  sfc /scannow  " which rests key windows files including IE back to original values (need to have the XP disk available).

Then after another reboot, disabled windows automatic updates but went to the update site. Ran a custom check of updates, selected IE6 security updates plus one or two other pertinent to my laptop. Made sure not to be prompted for IE7 update again. Be aware that this update process took 30 minutes and I thought my laptop had slowed / crashed again, but this was purely due to svchost.exe plus windows update apparently eating up all my RAM (i have 2GB !)

After install of these IE6 updates, rebooted. All works OK again !     

I get suspicious that Microsoft might be beefing up their updates etc to "persuade" people to upgade their old software and hardware. Best to be VERY selective in what you download from MS! Their quality control is fairly cr@p as well   

Problems experienced were on a Dell D400 laptop, a bit old, but normally runs very well indeed, just need to be careful what versions of softwareto load.
Specifications: 1.4Ghz (Centrino), 2GB RAM @ 266, 80gb disk.
Software: XP2, Avast4.8, Comodo Firewall V3, Windows Defender, Superantispyware 4 (on demand only).

[sirretief]

I am having the same problem and also I am having internet lock ups on my ie 6 browser.  In addition I am having lockup/lag issues in wow since the release. Is someone looking into these issues...this really sucks