I have recently upgraded to 5.0 FREE. It seems like I now have constant hard-drive activity based on the PC indicator light. It is comparable to a hard-drive defrag or copying large files, or say scanning all files for viruses.
Under the Avast settings, I have the option checked to animate the icon when a scan is running. Even when it is not animated, the hard-drive has much activity. What could be causing that if the virus scan is not running ?
( I am fairly familiar with the services the PC is running, but I do not see any that should cause constant hard-drive activity. For instance, I don't use system restore, so it is turned off. )
Dig