First post here
I’ve been running the free version of Avast for some time with no problems (latest version as at 12th August 2015).
My PC is Win7 x64 (up to date with service packs and windows updates etc). It has 4gb memory and an Intel Core 2 Duo (T7250 @ 2.00 Ghz)
A few days ago my PC began to crawl which turned out to be svchost.exe and/or avastsvc32.exe. Each process would take up 50% cpu (one whole core each) which was leading to 100% cpu activity and svchosts.exe was also chewing up memory (over 1gb). Disabling avast had no effect. Going into safe mode and uninstalling avast did the trick and now PC is behaving normally. However, it’s not an ideal situation (no AV).
I’ve used other AV systems before (such as Symantec Endpoint and AVG and each have their problems) but I’d like to stop with AVAST. I could upgrade to the PRO version but I’m not convinced it would solve this problem.
Any thoughts?
regards
Barnsey