My Avast! task bar icon spins constantly at times. For the last 5 minutes it’s been doing this and has just now stopped. I’ve seen this before. Why this behavior?
Thanks.
Open the interface and see the traffic of each shield or the statistics for the last hour, for instance.
Could be a lot of things “working” in background.
Do you have Google Desktop Service or Windows Indexing Service running? They’ve been known to cause this behavior. avast! constantly scans while they work in the background.
You might also check the File Shield Expert settings and see if Scan all files is checked in either Scan when opening or Scan when writing. This caused mine to scan frequently like you described.
When the avast icon rotates it is scanning, either background activity forcing avast to scan, like P2P download, etc. or a background scan (scheduled), etc.
So what exactly were you doing when this happens ?
As Tech suggests when it is happening check the main shields, File System Shield, P2P Shield, Web Shield, etc. to see which Shield is actually scanning and what.
I have been facing this issue too for the last couple of days.
All it shows is that File System Shield was checking some random *.msp files in c:\windows\installer.
This behaviour arose when Windows Update was scanning for updates in the background (most noticeable at startup).