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Sure enough, after further research it looks like running the memory scan is a shaky idea at best ;D I think I’ll take everyone’s advise and disable the feature. I’m willing to give Poolmon a try if if will help improve the product though.
@Pondus Why not scan every night, unused CPU cycles are a waste? I run twice daily incremental backups and in the event of a file shield detecting an infection I like to look at the last full, detailed scan to see that there is a low likelihood of there being anything else on the machine.
@igor I recently switched to Avast from MSE after testing the on-demand abilities and the interface and liking what I saw. I installed it on my two 2 PCs running the same OS, although I had configured Avast differently. Afterwards I noticed the free memory was much less in the mornings than afterwards on one of them. I use Zabbix to monitor my network so I looked at the free memory graphs and noticed the one machine that the memory dropped sharply precisely the same time Avast started scanning and only slightly came back after the scan stopped. I played with settings and figured out it was the memory scan.