To detect a file as malware, AVG uses heuristics analysis. Heuristic analysis is a method employed by antivirus programs designed to detect previously unknown computer viruses, as well as new variants of viruses known.
In this method, AVG decompile the suspicious program, then analyze the machine code contained within. The source code of the suspicious file is compared to the source code of known viruses and virus-like activities.
If a certain percentage of the source code matches with the code of known viruses or virus-like activities, the file is flagged, and the user is alerted.
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No other antivirus. Its doing it all the time and my other computers dont do it.
I constantly have 5-6% usage from AVG service and can't understand why. If i close the protection down it will stop and then when I restart its OK for a few hours then it starts doing it again.I have a i7-8700K processor so 5-6 % is a lot. Running windows 10 pro 2004. Please don't just tell me to uninstall and reinstall as I've done that already.
No other antivirus. Its doing it all the time and my other computers dont do it.
Thank you for sharing the screenshot, Nick.
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Hello Nick,
We're glad to clarify this for you.
Initially, please make sure that there is no other antivirus software installed on your PC. It is generally not recommended to use more than one security solution on a single system. They will compete for resources, which may result in slowdowns, crashes or in no protection at all.
If you do not have a conflicting antivirus software, please monitor if AVG is running a virus scan on your PC which consumes more resources than usual.
We'd also like to inform you that our shields will continuously run in the background, keep scanning some thousands of files every minute as you use the computer.
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