Avast service cpu usage

[Rjtuazon1998]

avast! Service uses about 32-35% of my cpu. How do i fix this? This started only yesterday, and i tried restarting, reinstalling and updating. No luck. What do i do?

[Guest]

Uninstall it or let it finish whatever it is doing.

[vanished]

Is it running a scan?  Or maybe it's updating?   Have you tried just waiting to see if it settles down after a while (like a day)?

[DrMacintosh]

3 minutes ago, Rjtuazon1998 said:

avast! Service uses about 32-35% of my cpu. How do i fix this? This started only yesterday, and i tried restarting, reinstalling and updating. No luck. What do i do?

Avast is terrible, so are most antivirus programs. Remove Avast and use Windows Defender and some common sense on the internet and you will be fine. Avast single handedly took my moms Core i7 Satellite laptop from lenovo and turned it into an Apple II

[DrMacintosh]

4 minutes ago, SSL said:

Uninstall it or let it finish whatever it is doing.

He should just remove it. I have seen what Avast does to computers.......its death. 

[Rjtuazon1998]

Its neither scanning nor updating

[HPWebcamAble]

6 minutes ago, Rjtuazon1998 said:

Its neither scanning nor updating

How do you know?

Check that you don't have a scan scheduled:
From the main screen > Scan > Scan for viruses > Scan Settings (at the bottom) > Scheduling tab

Is anything setup there?

[HPWebcamAble]

31 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Avast is terrible, so are most antivirus programs. Remove Avast and use Windows Defender and some common sense on the internet and you will be fine. Avast single handedly took my moms Core i7 Satellite laptop from lenovo and turned it into an Apple II

I've installed avast on 6 computers and every single install is fine. I've heard it can cause blue screens in Windows 8 (didn't experience that myself though)

 

Avast has a plugin for web browsers which can be helpful for those momentary lapses-of-judgments that I have every so often.

[Rjtuazon1998]

13 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

How do you know?

Check that you don't have a scan scheduled:
From the main screen > Scan > Scan for viruses > Scan Settings (at the bottom) > Scheduling tab

Is anything setup there?

Nope, scan scheduler isnt even enabled. Also this desktop has been on for a while, i think if it was scanning something or updating, it would already be done by now

[HPWebcamAble]

6 minutes ago, Rjtuazon1998 said:

Nope, scan scheduler isnt even enabled. Also this desktop has been on for a while, i think if it was scanning something or updating, it would already be done by now

Strange. Like Ryan suggested, give it another day and if it's still doing the same thing, then we can worry.

[Guest]

9 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

Avast is terrible, so are most antivirus programs. Remove Avast and use Windows Defender and some common sense on the internet and you will be fine. Avast single handedly took my moms Core i7 Satellite laptop from lenovo and turned it into an Apple II

 

Windows defender is also garbage, so...no.

[DrMacintosh]

19 minutes ago, SSL said:

 

Windows defender is also garbage, so...no.

How so? It gets updates all the time, its worked so far for me and I have had it for about 2 years on two different PCs. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

How so? It gets updates all the time, its worked so far for me and I have had it for about 2 years on two different PCs. 

 

Whenever the user accesses a directory containing executables, it freezes Explorer while it scans them. Detection rates are consistently to be shown behind third party products. High performance impact during on-demand scans, affecting other running processes.

[vanished]

1 minute ago, SSL said:

 

Whenever the user accesses a directory containing executables, it freezes Explorer while it scans them. Detection rates are consistently to be shown behind third party products. High performance impact during on-demand scans, affecting other running processes.

That does sound dumb, but it also sounds like it could be intentional... you can click a virus if explorer is frozen

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, SSL said:

 

Whenever the user accesses a directory containing executables, it freezes Explorer while it scans them. Detection rates are consistently to be shown behind third party products. High performance impact during on-demand scans, affecting other running processes.

I have experienced none of that. Limiting it's CPU usage solves most performance hits (that I never experience anyway). I am not sure what you are talking about, but you obviously don't like Windows Defender.......