Solved: Avast 7 free slows down my surfing and is very slow to update defintions

HI was wondering if I could ask some questions about avast 7 free. Today avast 7 was very slow updating its defintions it seemed to take forever. What I would like to now is what can cause this?

The second thing I want to talk about is when I double click on the Chrome browser on my desktop and go on the internet and I go to a website avast seems to be slowing down my surfing ability on the internet. When I am at the website sometimes the orange ball in the task bar will go around for a minute or two and then the orange ball will quit moving. I have also had some trouble on facebook lately as well when I am on facebook the orange ball will be going around and at times avast will not let me scroll down my facebook page at times avast will freeze my mouse pointer for a second or so and then things are fine. What can cause this to happen how can I fix these above issues
Thanks.

Ps: I am on high speed internet access
I have the lasted version of avast free installed on my Windows Vista home Basic.

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Well I uninstalled Avast and then used aswclear in safe mode. Reinstalled Avast and everything is fine now.

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win 8 64bit, wlan, firefox /chrome, newest avast antivir free, windows own firewall

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any other security programs installed?