Thank you very much, Vlk, for your fast response (only about 1 hour - excellent!). I tried your “trick” and it stops Ashsimpl from Invalid Page Faulting - BRILLIANT 8)

Unfortunately the “trick” stops Avast from scanning “Selected Folders”. By that I mean that Avast always scans my Hard Drive beginning at the C: drive and continuing to my last partition (G: drive).

However, I will continue to fiddle with it because your “trick” made such an impact. I will try and find out what ODBC has to do with the problem (it is early morning here and I am zonked ;D )

I also tried to narrow down the fault a bit - test results are below. I will narrow it down to be more specific (exe, dll, txt, etc.) - later :wink:

Thanks again Vlk! Your help was inspirational :slight_smile:

Settings: Resident Scan OFF, QuickScan, Selected Folders.

(Fail = Invalid Page Fault, Pass = No problems)

Files-Fold–Size-----Result
189—44—30.7mb-FAIL
189—47—22.0mb-FAIL
168—41—18.5mb-PASS
334—281–9.10mb-PASS (mainly C-Source)
128—20—22.1mb-PASS