I'm using avast! Internet Security, Version 6.0.1203, which apparently is impossible to shut down completely. I need to do that for a while so have disabled all shields -- everything says it's turned OFF -- but I can see in Task Manager that avast! is still using most of my CPU (up to 92 percent!) and that several avast! processes are still running and cannot be turned off. Why not? What's going on here?
The whole thing is beginning to scare me, as I desperately need my PC's resources right now but can't free them from avast!. I've shut down the firewall and antivirus services in Task Manager, but that's all I can do and it clearly is not enough. Nothing I've tried in command line works, either.
Can anyone help? I'd sure appreciate it. I'd like to keep the avast! protection I've paid for but am about to uninstall the whole thing in frustration (although I've seen evidence in the support forums that that's a problem too. Yikes).
Any comments and/or tips are welcome. Thanks --