About a week or so ago, my computer started running extremely slow. I use Vista 64 so I have the Windows side bar open with various system monitoring gadgets. All four cores of my processor were running near 100% constantly. Even with no programs open. I also began to notice that my hard drive was constantly writing data to somewhere. My hard drive space slowly began to fill even though I wasn’t installing or downloading any new files. Eventually the hard drive filled completely (about 300 GB of free space gone). I uninstalled many programs and deleted many document files to free up space (about 100 GB freed this way). I resumed normal use and didn’t install or download any new programs. I started a defrag and left it running over night. The next morning… the hard drive was almost completely full again (down to about 30 GB free). Defrag had finished but the system monitor showed data was still being written to the hard drive with no programs open. I checked the system monitor which showed a lot of activity from Avast. A few Google searches and I found from forums that others had discovered Avast and other antivirus software writing erroneous data. I checked my system monitor and saw that data was being written to the hard drive. I went to “Avast shield control” and selected “disable permanently”. The hard disk writing immediately stopped and the hard disk filing has stopped.
- Why is the happening and how do I make it stop.
- Where is this erroneous date that Avast was writing so that I can remove it?