Avast 2016 - aswFe.exe causing huge CPU load

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Recently, I’ve upgraded to Avast 2016 on my laptop. (Among others, I use Avast on all my PC’s as well as those I’ve built for others.)
My laptop is rather old, so I’ve never been concerned that the Avast service uses up to 50% of my CPU when doing scans. (Although it’s still a 3ghz dualcore, just an older one.)

However, since I’ve upgraded to Avast 2016 there is now another task also using up to 50% of my CPU as well!
This basically means that my laptop becomes unusable whenever Avast does a scan.

Just what have you guys done, that doubles the load on the CPU?!
This is seriously unacceptable.
If it stays like this, I’ll be forced to switch to another AV…

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Already did a repair ?
If not, do so.

If you did, already performed a clean installation ?
If not, do so.

Let’s see if something changes.

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here we have the same problem did you solved it ?
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=178952.0

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The question should be have you found the reason for this excessive use ???

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maybe : have you found the reason for this excessive use and solved the problem ?

:wink: thats better

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As you saw from my screenshots in the other thread, I don’t have your problem.
Something on your system is triggering and that’s what needs to be solved.