After the last couple of updates Avast have been putting one of the instances of svchost (no I don’t know which one i never checked) to 100% cpu usage. At least the one I got today gave me the prompt to restart. This is just an observation i’ve seen, as when I restart my computer all is well again, but I thougt it was slightly strange.
I never heard of this before. It could very well being caused by other progs you had running or a small error in the os.
I agree with you… Something wrong… disabling avast! went back the CPU useage to normal… I’ll do more research. I have to boot three times last weekend. Although, not all the time this was related to avast (I suppose) :-\
It is possible that you have been infected by Blaster because it have same behaviour - crashing svchost.exe and downcounted restart…
To be sure check your harddrive…
Who? Me?
If avast! can find Blaster and clean it, you can be sure I’m not infected ;D
I had a couple of hang ups but like Technical not sure if they were Avast related though I suspect it may have been because of an automatic update. I often miss the blue box notification because it doesn’t stay up (I think).