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AVG Resident Shield Service High Disk Usage

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No, it isn't normal. Could you download and install Sysinternals, use its 'Process Explorer', and paste a screenshot of what's running? Could you also download HijackThis and share what it reports? Doing so would be quite helpful to me/us in diagnosing the problem.


Sysinternals is freely available from Microsoft here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

HijackThis is also freely available from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/
No, it isn't normal. Could you download and install Sysinternals, use its 'Process Explorer', and paste a screenshot of what's running? Could you also download HijackThis and share what it reports? Doing so would be quite helpful to me/us in diagnosing the problem.


Sysinternals is freely available from Microsoft here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

HijackThis is also freely available from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/
 
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