Avast CHOKING down memory - machine at a crawl

sorry - this is my main work machine and getting it running properly was paramount…

BUT, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened, certainly recently…

I have this thread bookmarked and should it happen again I will certainly do those steps.

One thing I noticed tho: in the threads section - there were like 40 threads opened to activate.adobe.com (or the like)…

Hello guys,
thanks for reporting this to us. It would help, in case anything similar ever happens in the future, to create a process dump for us.

For this you have to:
a) disable self-defense in avast settings \ troubleshooting
b) open Task Manager, right click on the AvastSvc and select “Create Dump File”, or even better in Process Explorer, right click, select Create Dump / Create Full Dump

Thanks a lot,
Lukas.