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Sometime ??? All the time ??? What is using all the resources ???

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I notice that Behaviour Shield (aswidsagenta.exe) is hogging memory and occasionally bandwidth to the hard drive (maxed at 100%) this is despite the fact that i have “unistalled” the behaviour shield component in the “components” setting. I uninstalled it because it is hogging resources even when turned off. So now it is hogging resources even when uninstalled. My next step is to uninstall AVAST and go with something else. Really guys. This is urgent. Fix it.
The symptoms are that my machine goes really slow or even appears to stop, and my internet connection dies and I get “Server not found” responses. I disable and re-enaeble my wifi to clear this. Very annoying. The cure is worse than running-the-risk-of-malware.

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I noticed avast’s behavior shield is the cause of most problems reported here

I experienced myself that the behavior shield mysteriously prevented a few of my programs to run without any notification. Repairing or clean installation didn’t solve the problem

Yesterday, my friend told me that his low-end laptop was sluggish in all tasks and he asked me to looked for the cause because he’s a basic user. I found that behavior shield was constantly using CPU ~0.1-1% and almost never stayed at 0%. A few of his programs couldn’t run properly too

I decided to uninstall behavior shield and installed the minimum configuration (file & web shields) => his laptop was a lot more responsive and less buggy since then. I tweaked his setup with other programs instead of using avast’s Behavior shield

I also noticed avast behavior shield turned of itself in the past

if there is any unsolvable problems, just try to disable Hardware virtualization, if doesn’t work → disable behavior shield → problems solve

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http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1500467470452-94428.png

Maybe it’s time to:

Repair Avast:
Control Panel> Program and Features (Add/remove program)>Select Avast> Select Repair. Reboot when completed
https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB204

If Repair doesn’t fix the problem, try the following:
Clean Install of Avast:
https://goo.gl/4Ptzkf
If you need additional help with the Clean Install, watch this:
https://youtu.be/p-h3myRD51A
You can download the latest version at: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=205786.msg1409431#msg1409431

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This Behaviour Shield is cranking down my CPU usability to a creep when Windows Update is done, at least partially for some minutes.
(Without that cranking down it would not be some minutes, it would happen much quicker)
Really?
I was not always like that, but actually.

Windows Update is fully shielded, observed and cranked down, at least at some phases of doing the update process?
Has there been any scenario in that an official Windows Update was a threat?
I mean, okay, 2023, so why not; the new normal could mean that even Windows Update is a threat. Who knows.