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Why does Avast! free antivirus slow down my computer?

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  • Ed G
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    There are several reasons. The first and most likely is that you don't have much ram on your computer.Avast does run light.You may have to many programs running and the added weight of Avast is causing slow downs. Another reason could be that you have another security program, running which is a bad idea because this often causes slow downs.Something on your computer does not work right with avast and is causing problems or for some other reason Avast has problems on your computer if this is the case, it's very hard to figure out what the problems is and not worth the effort. There are many free antivirus programs so you could try one of them.

  • 5 years ago

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Greetings. My name's Sanjay Patel, and I currently hold an honorary Master's degree in the field of Computer Science. I am aware of, and have personal knowledge related to your question. There are computer maintenance businesses which are probably in your area, however they come at the cost of hiring a professional to enter your home. There may also be some local destinations where you can drop off your computer and wait to have a technician look at it. These options can often be costly, and pretty inconvenient. The answer to this question can probably be found doing a little extra research on Google.

    A well-running computer can be a hard thing to maintain. From my experience, there is but only One software which is reputable- and consistently reliable for healing sick, slow computers. Reimage™ is a world-renown, easy to use software designed by Forensic scientists and made for the average person. This thing will fix literally just about ANY problem you could possibly be having with your PC. Reimage was recommended to me by a Professor during my 2nd year of Graduate school.

    Source(s): Personal Experience with https://tr.im/ReimageRepair
  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hello. My name is Sanjay Patel, and I currently hold an honorary Master's degree in the field of Computer Science. I am aware of, and have personal knowledge related to your question. There are computer maintenance businesses which are probably in your area, however they come at the cost of hiring a professional to enter your home. There may also be some local destinations where you can drop off your computer and wait to have a technician look at it. These options can often be costly, and pretty inconvenient. The answer to this question can probably be found doing a little extra research on Google.

    A well-running computer can be a hard thing to maintain. From my experience, there is but only One software which is reputable- and consistently reliable for healing sick, slow computers. Reimage™ - https://reimagefix.im/ is a world-renown, easy to use software designed by Forensic scientists and made for the average person. This thing will fix literally just about ANY problem you could possibly be having with your PC. Reimage was recommended to me by a Professor during my 2nd year of Graduate school

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Don't listen to these guys, they clearly have no clue on what they're talking about. I am a developer at Microsoft so I know a thing or two about computers. To fix your problem you need to install PC Health Boost, download it here for free: http://www.healthboostpc.com/

    It's very light and it's the only antivirus/cleaner with a 99.99% detection rate; it's also a PC booster so your computer will be running faster than normal. Install it, hit run and problem solved. It shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It's not avast! I just checked with MemInfo & avast! Antivirus Free is using only 8MB RAM. Open Task Manager & check what programs have high CPU & RAM usage.

    Source(s): avast! Antivirus Free user.
  • 6 years ago

    I just tried https://reimagefix.im/ mentioned by that Sanjay guy on here and it completely fixed my computer. I was having all kinds of problems that were absolutely annoying me to death. This computer had viruses, spyware, error messages, hardware problems, and it would often crash or freeze on me. I think the worst thing to me was how SLOW and laggy it became. So just when I was about to wash my hands with it, and waste money on a new computer...I find this.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Do a disk defragment and do a deep scan.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago
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