Well first off...
I have windows XP, and have all shields running even thou I'm not using some and everything is runnig smooth ....
just wondering is there a reason that you only have the 2 shields runing and, is there a reason why you have decided to stay with the free version 5 instead of updating to the free version 6...after all they are both free and the version6 I find has so many more options, and offers more protection....And is rated highly by users and media...
Second...Sounds ike you have some reminants left over from previous security programs
What antivirus if any have you used before and did you download their proper uninstall utillity tool and did a clean instal of Avast 5
In other words any Previous Firewall or Antivirus is probably still running in the background with Avast5...think of any that could be there and do a full search on them if you can think of any previous security software and download their proper uninstal tool...
Also is it possible? that you might still have Avast 4.8 also there...If so download the proper Avast uninstal tool and do a clean instal of AVAST
Cheers and safe surfing!!
I only have the 2 shields running because I dont like the extra lag of the others and I found I never needed them anyway.
I do not have reminants of other security programs avast 4 and now 5 is the only AV I have ever had installed on this.
And I uninstalled 4 with the tools and cleaned all traces of it from the PC.
I have and use malwarebytes from time to time but its not always running.
I use comodo firewall with no sandbox or anything running, but I have avast and comodo set to exclude everything from each other and when it spikes the CPU comodo is not using much cpu.
There is no previous firewall or AV running in the background with Avast.