Avast 5.0.418 Hogging/Freezing

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi!

I tried searching for my problem with the new avast… I´ve got a problem with avast freezing my system for like 10-15s.
Especially Explorer, when copying and moving files, opening zip archives and rar files, etc . Everything else works fine, just explorer freezes
when working with it. I have also the latest version of the free version of zonealarm 9.1.007.002 - I did the trick with the CPU usage of the
zonealarm with pressing ctrl+shift and dissabling debug, because it was using 20-30% CPU, and i thought that was the problem, but no go :frowning:

I have put on everything in the expert settings of all of the services in Avast to scan everything, but i don´t know why my comp freezes
when running especially explorer. I have a pretty ok system - Amd Dualcore x5000, 2gb ram, 500gb hd. I don´t know what to do so it
won´t HOG my system this much, and/or freeze it. Some programs start slower and everything also… I have Win XP Home.

Help appreciated / Mannix

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I have everyting up to date on the win xp home edition. SP3 etc from the microsoft update site… graphics+sound drivers and every program i have is the latest…

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Freezing is a very difficult troubleshoot problem…
Does uninstalling ZA and installing again work? Any other security program that could interfere?

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So, I’m not the only one with C.P.U. issues. Is your issue similar to mine posted here?

This has to be resolved, Alwil Software! :-\ Awaits bugfix update.

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Yes its pretty much similar your problem…

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Thanks for checking. :wink:

It looks like our C.P.U. issues may be more widespread, seeing as ours are quite similar.

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I tried uninstalling the ZA firewall and doing a fresh install, but i have the same problems… Seems like the new free version of Avast uses
a ton of CPU when scanning files running, and especially when using Windows Explorer. My system can freeze up to 15-20s and i can´t do
anything but wait… like for an example, if i select an .exe file in explorer it can freeze the system for those 15-20s, and when unpacking
from archives it can freeze up the system for couple seconds. The webbprotection for trackiing internet traffic didn´t work for my webbpage browsers for some time, but now it seems after couple updates on the virus definition files, it works. The problem was that
i couldn´t browse any webbpage without dissabling the webbprotection realtime protection, but seems to work fine now :S
I can´t really give any more specific information, i dissable all the realtime protections when runnin PC tools spyware doctor because
i had problems with running 4.8 version of avast and spyware doctor at the same time. The whole system would freeze totally.
I don´t have anything else running then 9.1.007.002 Zonealarm and 5.0 Avast as protection.

Regards / Mannix

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Must report the same freezing issue since having installed avast 2 weeks ago on 2 mashine running win 7 64 bit.