I’ve been using the free version of Avast for a while now, and so far it’s been pretty good. Unfortunately today when I installed the update, it started to behave very badly, pushing my HDD access to 100%. It was on a computer that I really need in a working state, so I had to uninstall it straight away before investigating exactly what was causing the problem.
From what I can remember Avast NG Frontend, Commandline and ngtool, and mft processes were causing most of the accesses, as was something under svchost, but I didn’t check what. Superfetch was also started eating up a lot of resources.
The computer was a Dell laptop, running Win 8.1, with an i7 and 16GB of ram.
Do you guys think it would be possible to get Avast running on the laptop again?
yes it acted differently because of the new ng feature. There will be a lot of activity on the hard drive when you first install it, but once it’s completed it will settle down. This is normal. There are a lot of posts regarding this on the forum.