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Avast using 100% Disk

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In task manager it is showing that my hard drive is on 100% and avast is writing or reading at around 2Mb/s - 10Mb/s but nothing is installing and I'm not doing anything with avast its just sitting there. Any help?

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In task manager it is showing that my hard drive is on 100% and avast is writing or reading at around 2Mb/s - 10Mb/s but nothing is installing and I'm not doing anything with avast its just sitting there. Any help?

Not sure just let it install..........

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Probably a background scan.

Its stopped now but I've seen it do it before. I've only noticed it lately either because I have been checking lately and haven't checked in the past or it has just started doing it

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thats called a scan...

it does those regularly to check for viruses and other malware

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In task manager it is showing that my hard drive is on 100% and avast is writing or reading at around 2Mb/s - 10Mb/s but nothing is installing and I'm not doing anything with avast its just sitting there. Any help?

it's probably scanning. mine hits 100MBps when it scans

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