I completed a program update and rebooted. After this, performance was terrible. TaskMgr shows AvastSvc at >50% constantly.
Went to “add/remove components” and found the cleanup tool and several other components enabled, although they had been removed previously.
I found this
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=226892.0
“I believe I have seen this problem before and it was caused by the “Cleanup” component.
A recent update added Cleanup back into my installation - even though I had excluded it previously.”
Anyone else seen this behavior?