Hangup

Avast scans and hangs up at 61%. Any ideas?

First, I’m an Avast user and not an Avast Team member.

Whilst this isn’t a solution to scans taking a long time or hanging, but there is little information on exactly what is being scanned.

With a resident (on-access) scanner the need for on-demand scans is much depreciated. For the most part dormant/inert files are being scanned, the other active files are going to be scanned by the resident shields when they are activated.