Possible Memory Leak in ashMaiSv

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I seem to be getting a bad memory leak with ashMaiSv when using NNTP. If I download binaries via XNews then I get a 4MB (in this test case) jump in the working set size of this module for each block download - this in incremental and I killed one process at 800MB!.

This is a latest version with all standard settings (and Internet Mail shield on normal or high) on a pretty standard up-to-date AMD based XP SP2 system. I’ve tried several times over the past week and it seems to be recreatable. I don’t seem to have a problem with SMTP mail but this is difficult to see with such smaller sizes.

Anything I can do please?

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Just done some more testing and it happens with SMTP as well (a leap of just under 4MB for each email received or sent). So I guess it must be just my problem as otherwise a few others might have reported it! I’ll try a reinstall etc. and hope it goes away.

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4MB? That’s a lot… It appeared even when no attachment was sent with the e-mail, right?

Do you have any local proxies or other special network applications installed?

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No attachments, just short text emails (even sent myself oneto test). Seems to be a fixed amount (a little under 4MB) for each SMTP/NNTP item regardless of size. I’ve a pretty standard DSL setup through a hardware router (plus the SP2 firewall) - all default settings.

I’ll try a reinstall in a bit - need to have some food first!

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Just reinstalled Avast and the problem seems to have gone away. Will continue to monitor, thanks for the help.