German-user here....
Noticed the same issue with the "aschserv.exe" huge memory consumption,
direct after updating to new version (4.8.1351) it grows up to 900MB!!
(was afk for a while... noticed that when I came baq)
I can not repoduce this (900MB) but the "ashserv.exe" uses even more mem
than the previous avast version!! (Up to 150-200MB)
@ the moment I got ~70MB ... and ~200MB virtual memory!!!
please fix this lag
EDITI just surfed around a bit .... open few tabs in Firefox...
Close Firefoxstart ff again ... and all these steps will raise the size of "ashserv.exe".....
now I'm @ ~100MB RAM usage and ~265 VM