On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:04:40 -0600, VanguardLH <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Shadow wrote:
>
>> Using the new Avira Free Antivirus, version 12, fully updated.
>>
>> Every now and then, when I'm watching a movie, listening to music,
>> checking my email, etc, the PC jams for a minute, sometimes less,
>> infrequently a lot longer.
>>
>> Once it jammed for so long I was about to hard reboot (ctrl-alt-del
>> not responding) when it went back to normal.
>>
>> So I set procexp to run on the screen, and next time it happened, I
>> saw that an avira process was consuming 99% of the CPU. Can't remember
>> which process, I just got a glimpse of the little red icon and the cpu
>> usage before everything went back to normal, and the window I had
>> clicked on before blanked it out.
>>
>> Windows XP SP3.
>>
>> Not an update, I have them set to once a day, and this is happening
>> maybe 2-3 times a day.
>>
>> Deadly for anyone that plays online games ..
>> Any idea what is happening ? And what should be tweaked so it does not
>> go on happening ?
>> TIA
>
>What OTHER security software did you install that runs as a background
>or resident process? While the suggestion to use multiple AV products
>to overlap their protection (i.e., have them possible cover gaps in
>other products), some of them still install system hooks or run
>background processes despite you want them completely quiescent and used
>only as an on-demand scanner. I've seen where a couple of security
>products were competing with each other with the result that one would
>interrogate a file, close it, the other saw the open and then scanned
>the same file, closed it, the first one saw that and scanned again, and
>the two kept competing on the same file so that I was getting 3900 file
>opens per minute. Getting rid of the lesser product eliminate the
>competition.
Just Malwarebytes (free so not resident) and a firewall. I
also scan from linux with avast, f-prot or clamav, when I'm doing
something else.
I'm going to capture the hogger, if I'm fast enough, and I'll
post the results here.
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