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I don’t know how anything can be definite based on what you have said. Since avast usually updates the signatures twice a day. That is certainly going to coincide with any problem that all of a sudden starts, what it doesn’t do is prove that that was the problem.
I have MBAM Pro that updates several times a day, if I happen to have a problem on my system today that doesn’t mean it is MBAMs fault, the same is true with avast updates. I dare say that defence+ under the control of cmdagent.exe may well be getting signature updates too.
Agreed. I cannot definitively say Avast was the problem in this episode. However, my system was perfectly fine the prior evening when I shut it down. When I booted up the next day when the problems occured the only activity that had occured was the Avast def. update and quick scan that hung. There was one other thing I was doing at the time. I had opened a command promt window and had issued an ipconfig /all command at the time the Avast quick scan started. Really can’t see how that could hang the quick scan. I had not yet connected to the Net via IE8.