When I run the avastgui it slows my computer down to the point it's unusable. However if I run it from the commandline, theres no difference at all. I dont think I have a weak computer by any means. I have an Intel Core2Duo with 1gb ram. Ubuntu 9.10 with all the latest drivers, etc.
Hallo,
please, do 'top' in a terminal, and watch the resources of avastgui - is it getting out of memory, or just takes cpu time? anyway, both is bad, and there's (probably) some file, which causes this behavior (but, scan is probably stuck onj this file and there's no further progress - is this true in your case?)
Btw. you can reduce the slow-down of the rest of the machine simply by re-nicing the avastgui (run it in nice, or renice it, also the top-utility can re-nice on the fly).
regards,
pc