avast firewall + utorrent = stuttering and high CPU usage

I just bought avast IS a few days ago, and am exploring the new safety features that come with the package. I do, however, have a problems with avast firewall and utorrent. Running these two components together causes my computer (win7, 32bit) to slow down and stutter. the only time this problem stops is when i disable avast firewall.

note: utorrent is unchecked in the p2p shield but i still encounter this problem.

any help or requests for more information would be appreciated as i’m new to reporting problems here on the board :slight_smile: