Hello, i have years prefering Avast over other antivirus, but lately, it is consuming an obscene amount of cpu.
I have an i7 3rd generation processor with 16gb of ram, it´s not the latest machine but it should´nt be consumed that way by the antivirus
here is an image of the issue
Can you see if Avast is actually doing something? Like running a scan?
It shouldn’t do this. You could try a clean install of Avast Free. That may fix the problem.
I’ve had Avast running on my 3770K for years and normally it only uses a modest amount of resources.
You could try to do a REPAIR APP via Avast>Menu>Settings>Troubleshooting