Today I removed another AV product and put avast! 4 in charge of duties. Configured it to check the multiple email accounts/multiple email clients on my PC. Everything worked well. Made sure I had the latest updates as well.
However after using the computer for a while I started to notice problems. Text began to disappear from my windows, desktop and taskbar. Eventually the system got so unstable I had to reboot. This happened a second time and now I am thoroughly frustrated.
This is the only piece of software I’ve installed in the last few days so I am pretty sure the issue lies here.
Any ideas?
WinXP Pro, 512mb RAM, AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 80gb HD.
If you were using Windows 9x, I would say you are probably out of resources - but on Windows XP, this really shouldn’t happen. I don’t think avast! may influence other programs’ windows, desktop or taskbar…
as far as i can tell, it seems like a memory leak.
The labels of my desktop icons were also erased, leaving just the shadows. Other taskbar icons that relied on text alerts (for one, i have a icon that tells me how many emails i have waiting, another reports my system temperature) were also blanked.
No software firewall (I hide behind a router). I do use PeerGuardian to cover my tracks when on Kazaa, that is the closest thing to a firewall I have installed.
Reinstalled today. At a moment where my machine got rather sluggish I went to Task Manager. When it finally came up I saw memory usage of one of the components (not sure if it was ashServ.exe or ashDisp.exe) climb from 48M (when I noticed it) steadily to over 70M… then drop back. I don’t know if VRDB has anything to do with this (the icon was spinning) but I did disable it.
