Possible bug: Avast home build 4.6.744 and Folding@home

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi all, just registered to post a possible bug in the new build of avast.

I have the Folding@Home 5.03 client running on my computer all the time. Yesterday when I got back home, the computer was nearly frozen. I Ctrl+Alt+Delete 'd and saw that ashServ.exe was taking up 99% CPU time instead of the usual F@H taking up all the available time.

Now, since ashServ needs High Priority to work nicely, you can imagine that the computer was totally unusable. Slowly and painfully I stopped all running avast! agents, to no avail. I killed the ashServ process only to find out that the resident protection would now not start. I rebooted a couple of times without any change in behaviour. Only when I deleted the F@H link in the startup folder ashServ was happy once more.

At last, I had to tell avast!'s standard shield to not check inside the folder of F@H and everything is OK. I post this however as it might be a problem with any other process utilizing 99% CPU.

Thanks for a great anti-virus software,

Alex

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I won’t call it bug but a driver conflict or a trouble into any F@H file…
Can you check into Standard Shield settings (or Internet Mail provider) which is the last filed scanned?

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Sounds rather strange. Wasn’t VRDB generation in progress when you came to the computer? I really don’t think avast! has any problems with CPU intensive applications.