Anyone hearing from clients that some computers are slowing down and when you check them, Avast is running 40 to 80 % CPU usage?
Well, I solved the issue for one client’s computer. It had been running an average of 56% CPU usage for the past 5 days. And Avast was using the bulk of it.
I uninstalled Avast and replaced with Datto EDR. CPU running at 1 to 5 % for the past hour.
I have another unit we are looking at this morning. I will post an update as we learn more.
Oh, some more information. This machine was having this issue for a couple of months. We would reboot it every week and then watch the processor usage climb higher until the computer started to slow down a lot. But the past 5 days has been the worse. It was just recently that we discovered that Avast was the issue.