Sorry, the application I am using to tell me that Avast was using way too much memory was right on target. Avast was using an abnormal amount of memory, and it was just letting me know. Avast was using double what it normally usues, and I was using this thread to find out why. I was not bashing Avast. Matter of fact that was the first time I had seen that. The Avast anti virus service always runs about 11,000K on memory usage, it was over 21,000K for some reason. I was just trying to figure out why this was happening. But instead I get people worrying about my firewall and the silly Alexa plug-in. I have those items covered! 
Douglas