Avast creating shortcut for itself, also bringing internet to a crawl, taking up disk resources
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Avast keeps creating a shortcut to itself on my desktop despite repeatedly deleting it and it [I]will not stop.[/I] I cannot find a setting to make it stop fucking doing it.
It also keeps bogging down my internet randomly somehow (and funnily enough, constant connections like being on a server in source is completely unaffected), and at the same time this is making my hard drive near 100% active:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CSozep2.png[/img]
It seems to only happen if I load images too quickly in rapid succession, say, going through Imgur too fast.
I have no idea what would be causing this, it came out of nowhere. I switched away from MSE over a year ago because it missed something (minor) that Malwarebytes caught during my routine scans and someone suggested I use Avast instead and now it's giving me shit. Why.
And Waterfox is helping it!
I looked in that log file since I noticed it wasn't just Waterfox spamming things after a steam game tried to update and triggered the same effect and it was just filled with this:
[code][2016-07-06 06:33:08.476] [error ] [StrmFilter ] [ 1792: 9148] pPushBuffer->ResizePayloadSpace(2726218) failed with 0x80070008 error[/code]
Tried googling and it gave me absolutely nothing.
[editline]6th July 2016[/editline]
Oh fucking Christ I just tried to update it to see what would happen and I get this
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DOfcADO.png[/img]
I have more than enough of either type of space it's asking for.
I think my installation is fucked???????
Kill it with fire.
Oh god get rid of it so hard. Just float with malwarebytes and good sense of security and you'll be fine.
I moved away from Avast! because it's become a monster. AVG suffered the same fate a while back. I downloaded Avira but don't really have an opinion on whether it's effective or not. It definitely doesn't bother me as often.
I always used to recommend Avast but stopping using and recommending it after the whole MITM thing, not surprised to see it's gone even more downhill.
I ended up accidentally fixing it by just killing the service (because it was preventing pretty much anything beyond simple web pages from loading and I got annoyed) and letting it restart by itself. It also made it stop making a shortcut. Why didn't I do this before? :downs:
@ telling me to switch: No thanks. Avast doesn't bother me enough to make me want to switch [I]again[/I] especially since this is the first time in YEARS that it's ever given me an issue. If problems become frequent, then I'll definitely consider it.
There's no such thing as anti-vrius just more viruses that you pay for.
I still have no idea why Avast exists and people use it. Isn't it a virus itself?
[QUOTE=VagosLabrou;50672588]I still have no idea why Avast exists and people use it. Isn't it a virus itself?[/QUOTE]
No it is an antivirus, but it's become so bloated that a lot of people treat it as a virus now.
I stopped using Avast! 2 years ago. I looked through its 'records' and it never stopped a single virus in the 5 years I used it.
I run Spybot S&D 1.6.2 and the cognitive function between the left and right sides of my head. I've been virus-free since then.
Be wary that you must update spybot manually.
Avira OP for anyone crazy enough to be using Windows.
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