Kaspersky Internet Security - CPU issues.

Hi folks.
I got a 6 month copy of KS Internet Security free with a magazine and have been running it since my McAfee license expired.

As a rule it shows between 30% and 40% for "avp.exe" in the CPU column of the Processes tab in Windows Task Manager.

This itself seems a bit high to me, but maybe it is just another bit of bloatware (much like McAfee in that respect I suppose)

Sometimes though, the computer slows RIGHT down and the CPU column reads up around 95% to 99%.

Today it happened right as the Kaspersky updater downloaded some threat signatures. Even after the update completed the CPU usage stayed at maximum, still 95% to 99% used by avp.exe, and remained that way until I managed to close Kaspersky altogether and then restart it.

I had previously tried rebooting the machine, but the problem continued again as soon as I logged back in to Windows.

Windows XP SP2
Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz
1GB of RAM

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing this over use of the CPU (during which my machine becomes practically unusable it is so slow) and how to go about putting a stop to it?

Much appreciated.

BigShot

 

Hi bigshot i have come across this problem before, in that particular case unchecking the integrity control option and then rebooting resolved the issues of high cpu load.

let me know how you get on as there are a few other possible solutions

 

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