I'm fully aware of what I am doing, and I'm clearly doing this at my own right. I do not want to be burdened with something I am forced to carry along. But Avast has now ended up auto-updating without my consent to 4.8, and I'm stuck with those pesky processes again. Access is denied.' messages.Īs a result, I ended up uninstalling 4.8 and reinstalling using the old installtion file for 4.7 dated 2006. Attempts to remove them result in 'The operation could not be completed. I used to resort to manually removing unneeded processes, including Avast, since none of the programs I'm using either use the Internet or utillises unsecured portions of it.īut it's now apparent I can't do the same after Avast was upgraded to 4.8 from 4.7. These days, running certain applications would result in a performance hit largely attributed to Avast's large demand for memory (some 10% of the total memory in use), especially after one of its processes occupies about 6% after heavy usage using an internet browser.

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