AVAST has been my virus protection of choice for the last couple of years-but now I’m stuck. I stupidly opened an exe file that was a Trojan. (win32:Trojan-gen (upx)). AVAST dutifully flagged it immediately and I put it in the vault. I ran a complete scan and every thing seemed clean.
I rebooted, and AVAST seemed OK – but thereafter “ashService.exe” would suck up 50-100% of the processor. It would ebb and flow- taking even more processor power when I ran my browser, to the point that my computer response would bog down constantly. Finally, using the (web site) AVAST uninstaller, I uninstalled AVAST- but elements of it such as “ashDisp.exe” continue to replicate itself and insist on being there at boot up.
AVAST has been great and I want to reinstall it, but would really appreciate some advice on how to do this without reintroducing the processor domination. It has always worked great on my PC alongside my other programs; AD-AWARE and WINPATROL. I ran another scan with EMCO mal-ware destroyer- and everything was clean.
I run Windows XP SP2, have a Pentium 4 -2.3gh processor and 2 gigs of memory.
There’s nothing like ashService.exe in avast! - I suppose you mean ashServ.exe.
Since you say you already uninstalled avast!, it’s hard to say what the CPU consuption might have been caused by - but it could be VRBD refresh, for example?
In any case, if you uninstall avast!, its files should be gone, of course… did you run the uninstaller from an administrator account? What exactly was left after the subsequent reboot?
i meet the same question.
After i infect a Trojan and i delete it totally,i think the thing is over.but i am wrong! The next time when i log in my computer, i find the computer can not work.Because avast cannot start and my computer has any respond. So ,i must log in computer in safe mode and uninstall avast.
I run Windows XP SP2, have a AMD 2600+ processor and 512M memory.
So, that is why? ???
(i am Chinese,english is not very good. ;))