The system goes on-line April 16th, 2008. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Avast begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, April 17th. In a panic, I tried to pull the plug... that worked.
That was a fun introduction, now on to the matter at hand:
I have Avast 4.8 Home running on 1.7 Ghz, 1gig Ram XP machine. When I launch Firefox Avast takes over - using all available CPU time and growing it's page file to as high as 200Mb, of course that freezes my compy... The specific service is ashwebsv.exe. It started happening when I upgraded to 4.8. When I try to end the ashWebsv.exe process it says access is denied.
I have 7 homepages that launch simultaneously, could this be it? I didn't think so since it worked fine 2 days ago...
Help?