It turns out that I was blaming the wrong application for making my computer sluggish. System resource usage returned to normal, even when Carbonite was scanning directories.
So I uninstalled AVG Antivirus and installed the free version of Avast Antivirus. I had never seen memory or disk usage so high for a single application. I have never seen numbers this high and it's why I decided to remove AVG Antivirus from my computer.ĪVG's run-once "low-resource" application had gone wild. No wonder I can't do anything! The image above shows that process "avgchsvx.exe" is reading and writing 57MB of data per second.
CARBONITE AVAST WINDOWS 7
It took nearly 10 minutes to get the Windows 7 Resource Monitor open and, when it opened the problem was obvious. Then, 30 seconds or a minute later, the text would appear. I would type and type and type, but nothing would appear on the screen. I was trying to compose an e-mail message and I could get 70 to 80 characters ahead of the display. Around Halloween, the AVG process started using so many system resources that I could do nothing on the computer. They had me delete files and reinstall parts of the application. AVG's tech support people asked for logs. A process that's supposed to run once and catalog system files seemed to be running constantly. In October, I started noticing a problem with AVG. They simply couldn't replicate the problem. I've sent Carbonite logs and screen shots and system information files all to no avail. This may seem unrelated, but bear with me for a moment: For the past year or so, Carrie Driscol and the QA and development staff at Carbonite, the on-line backup service, have been working with me to track down a problem with extremely high disk usage. You'll want to know the entire story behind that. I have followed the instructions from your support staff and the problem has only become worse." In other words, it had become the problem it replaced.
CARBONITE AVAST LICENSE
On November first, when I sent a message to AVG asking for a refund for the 2-year license I had renewed in October, I said that AVG "now uses so many system resources that I cannot use the computer. Back then I wrote about the excessive use of system resources by Norton Antivirus. The TechByter Worldwide search function tells me that I have written about AVG Antivirus 42 times starting in 2002. Bidding AVG Antivirus a (Not So Fond) Farewell No program next week: Because of the Thanksgiving holiday (which was celebrated last month in Canada) I'll be taking next week off.
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