I am set for auto updates for defs as I mentioned above. I just changed the frequency to once every 1440 minutes or once a day. From 2 x per day.

If I see this process triggered and “sticking on” (it should go off after updating and installing) I will consider switching to manual. WHICH STILL does not address the problem which is … the process SHOULD go off automatically after it completes it’s task, not stay on indefinitely eating up a lot of CPU and memory. ← this part is what Avast! software needs to address, obviously there is a bad turn on- turn off “switch” written. (I do not know the techical terms for that a software program).

Again … thanks for all the help> I do appreciate it. :slight_smile: