No - I don’t just mean .zip files.
Usiing System Monitor I can watch the free memory being chewed up when running avast when it hits my movie collection. Now - maybe there is some sort of a memory leak in Windows ME - it’s hardly an O/S without problems - but that is what I am obliged to work with.
Dachsund’s “hare” helps some with freeing the the memory, but when it hits those big files it seems to spend more time recovering free memory than it does actually checki9ng for viruses.