I've had this problem for quite some time now:
Whenever I try a quick or full scan, Avast begins scanning normally, proceeds testing files and folders for about a minute and then stops. It doesn't freeze or crash, it just gets to a certain point and does not scan any further. The scan appears to be running, the run time counter keeps counting, but the scanning speed drops over time and the number of tested files/folders as well as the amount of data tested remain the same. I am able to pause and resume, stop and restart the scan, but the same thing keeps happening over and over again. This is even after I tried updating to the latest version and definitions.
Right now, the scan has stopped with the "Processing file" indicator showing "SVC: .NET CLR Data >
". On restarting the scan it stopped when processing something called "SVC: .NET Data Provider for Oracle >
". Previous times it happened when processing different things, but I noticed all of them start with the letters "SVC".
So... the scan feature is basically unusable for me, right now.
Your help would be appreciated!