Vlk
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Strange… as far as I know, avast! has absolutely nothing to do with the spooler.
Does Avast use the Generic-host-process-svchost also?
No. The process that avast uses to do the updates (i.e. connect [via standard HTTP] to our servers to do the update) is called ‘avast.setup’. Many our users use firewalls (ZoneAlarm including) and creating an ‘allow-rule’ for this process is sufficient to make the updates work…
There must be some dependency between avast and the spoolsv on your machine. I can’t see any reason for this, though - spoolsv is the print spooler, right?! ???
Vlk