I am not sure if I am mistaken by posting this thread or not ???
frankly, I did not expect all these negative replys 
You have to stay above all this( I hope it is the right english phrase). Your startuplist shows that you do not start much or useless Software, one thing you could try is to temporary disable you firewall to see if it disturbs with Avast. If not, you should use an other Scanner for your on access protection and use Avast only for on demand.
It is not easy to say what happens on your system, but if you can make Avast responsible for your problem, change your on-accessprotection, wait for a new release. Thats it!
Hey minacross,
I found it useful, keep it up. I’m not too proud to say that I learn something from all of the
posts here, including the comments in this thread.
It even had a good descriptive subject header, so anyone who didn’t want to go over it
again, could have easily chosen not to read it if they didn’t want to.
Thanks for the post and thanks Vlk for just nudging my brain into thinking about the
desktop using memory.
Walker
Sorry doggeral. I think we do not agree with you. NAV is quite a non wellcome antivirus. I wont post here all my past comments about it (if anybody want to read something, try a search in these foruns: http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1335;start=msg7498#msg7498)
Minacross, try a look at http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1436;start=msg8505#msg8505 and http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=post;threadid=777
You do not regret posting anything here. We always learn and sometimes teach ;D
Sorry doggeral. I think we do not agree with you. NAV is quite a non wellcome antivirus. I wont post here all my past comments about it (if anybody want to read something, try a search in these foruns: http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1335;start=msg7498#msg7498)
Minacross, try a look at http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1436;start=msg8505#msg8505 and http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=post;threadid=777
You do not regret posting anything here. We always learn and sometimes teach ;D
An av that does not use any resources…
Maybe you are kidding with us. No resources, no way, does not work, does not exists, or do nothing…
It will be a very suffering affair to you trying to convince us to use Norton. Is up too you but you´ll be alone at avast! foruns… ;D
thanx raman,walker and technical for your support… ;D
don’t worry, I am an Avast4 addict… ;D ;D ;D
you can’t get rid of me that easy 
BTW, who took 2 karmas of mine
I would never take Karma from you. I know what it feels like
I was not suspecting you or anyone else in particular :-
Just upset to lose 2 of my Karmas :‘( :’(
Hey minacross, I wouldn’t take them away, but have a karma from me anyway.
Walker.
thanx Walker ;D
BTW, I still have only 2 karmas
You had three when I added one ! ???
quit stealing minacross’s karma >:(
Boys,
STOP THAT NOW!
This is an antivirus support forum. All of you are clearly off-topic and that will be not tolerated anymore. Say something about karma again and I will delete your posts. >:( >:(
To me it seems you’re annoying other users with your karma begging.
Hardware:
CPU Celeron 600 MHz
RAM 64 MB
VGA 8 shared
OS:
Windows Me
Software:
Memory Mechanic from System Mechanic 4.0 b
NOTE:
Swap file size (fixed) 128 MB
How did I test?
McAfee was loaded with default set of options. Avast! 4 home was loaded with 4 out of 5 providers (all but Outlook/Exchange provider). Since hardware resources were so scarce and Windows Me was so notorious of its poor memory management, I did 2 passes of memory recovery and one pass of memory defragging. After that, I waited for blue line (Free RAM) to become perfectly flat and that was considered as “stationary” state. CPU usage fluctuated even in “stationary” state, so as “stationary” state for CPU usage I took position of horizontal yellow line.
Sorry doggeral. I think we do not agree with you. NAV is quite a non wellcome antivirus. I wont post here all my past comments about it (if anybody want to read something, try a search in these foruns: http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1335;start=msg7498#msg7498)Minacross, try a look at http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1436;start=msg8505#msg8505 and http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=post;threadid=777
You do not regret posting anything here. We always learn and sometimes teach
Sigh … Sarcasm is lost all too often in this world…
Can we post about our karma on the “General Topics” forum?
Can we post about our k@rma on the "General Topics" forum?
Hehe, nice trick with the @ ;D
Probably (unfortunately?? :-X) yes, given the description on the front page.
This forum:
avast! 4 Home/Pro topics and issues
General Topics:
anything and everything about this board.
:-\
kubecj,
I do not beg for Karmas >:(
I started this thread to discuss some problem I am facing, and not to beg for karmas
if I am annoying other users with my posts, may be it is the time to consider stopping visiting this forum :‘( :’(
Mina, don’t take the things like this. You and your posts are wellcome. I’m just thinking that Vlk and Kubecj are right to stop annoying messages of ‘karma’. Folks, use the IM messages for this.
About your RAM, I cannot conect avast! directly with this trouble. What I know I have already posted in foruns (http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=777;start=msg4686#msg4686): Tests on new Beta version of Norton and McAfee Antivirus in a Pentium 4, 1,4GHz e HDD at 5.400 RPM give this:
Norton eats 46Mb RAM
McAfee eats 29,1 Mb RAM
avast 4.0 just 11,1 Mb RAM