Still using win xp on one machine and can’t find anywhere that says if these 2 should be running at the same time. Programs are opening slowly and didn’t know if this is a part of the problem.
avastui is the avast UI (the ball and the screens)
avastsvc is the scanner part.
Yes, both should run.
Look at the taskmanager to see if anything is using many resources when you open a application.
What SP do you have installed?
What exact version of avast?
Use malwarebytes and spybot. Avast version is 2014.9.0.2021
Delete Spybot, it is has a huge lack of detection.
avast & MalwareBytes is enough.
What about the SP?
Which one do you have installed?
Service Pack? #3
Right now I see about 6 instances of svchost.exe running in task mgr processes…anywhere from 4000 to 37000 K usage.
It isn’t unusual to see multiple instances of svchost.exe (Service Host) running in the task manager. Most of which will have nothing to do with avast.
SP 3
I think I can close this out. One entry in task mgr was toolbarupdate.exe. Apparently this is from AVG. I found other remnants of AVG leftover from uninstalling it. Couldn’t delete all entries manually until I opened in safe mode and then del. them. Computer not hanging anymore when opening firefox, etc.
Use the avg removal tool:
http://www.ache.nl/index.php?location=mal-01