ashServ.exe 40%

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi, from today after updating avast as it update regularlly i see a problem.

while i download something using utorrent HDD red light constantlly blink and ashserv.exe usage 40-47% of cpu. and make my pc very slow. ???

then i goto standard shild and i see it in normal mode its still using resource.

basically it scanning the content that downloading using utorrent. and also i download a 700mb file from microsoft.com using free download manager that time ashserv.exe using also same amount of cpu.

and its scanning the file i’m downloading or firefox.exe or nv4_disp.dll…

and my game fps drops to knees for this please help.

my rig is,

AMD ATHLON 6000+ X2 (And I Have Installed Dual Core Optimizer)
ASUS M2N-MX SE
2X 1 GB DDR2 800MHZ
XFX GEFORCE 8600 GT FATAL1TY 256MB GDDR3 (178.24 ForceWare)
250 GB SEGATE SATA 2 HDD

how to fix this problem. :cry:

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ScreenShot,

http://i38.tinypic.com/euo48l.jpg

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hello anyone there???

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when idle it scanning Aavm4h.dll.

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Well uTorrent is notorious, for the number of small part files that it downloads. If you have enabled the utorrent option in the P2P shield ?
Then that is what is going on scanning the many files being created, this is the reason wht utorrent is not selected by default in the P2P shield.

Sorry other than that I can’t be of much practical help I don’t use P2P applications.

The ashServ.exe file is the main scanning engine, whilst this high cpu activity is going on is the avast icon rotating ?

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yes it not selected there. and some time the icon not rotating but still using hdd activity + cpu usage. that cause system slow down. :cry:

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http://i35.tinypic.com/2zns77n.jpg

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Well ashServ.exe isn’t just used by the Standard Shield, so it could as easily be another provider scanning something, but even then the icon should rotate when scanning is in progress.

As a temporary measure you could enable the ‘Show detailed info on performed actions’ this displays a ribbon list at the bottom of the screen (it could get large) more or less real time list of what is being scanned.

Standard Shield > Customize > Advanced - ‘Show detailed info on performed actions’ this option is off by default, this function is also on the Web Shield and Internet Mail providers so you should also check those.

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utorrent open and closes the file being downloaded, avast at Normal sensitivity level is scanning this file (probably). Check your IM provider, most probably, the default will be excluding utorrent from scanning… I don’t know if there is a technical solution for this…