Process name: avast! Web Scanner
Product: avast! Antivirus or ROUTE 66 RouteBundle or SmartSound Quicktracks Plugin or FANUC Robotics PC FileServices or Ulead Photo Explorer 7.0 SE or rgc:audio Triangle II or Pocket Hack Master or Easy Driver Installation or IRISYS 1000 Series Imager or Acoustica Effects Pack or Microsoft Office Professional or Adobe Photoshop Elements or Sony Ericsson W800 Software or Home Cinema XL II or Spyware Terminator
Company: ALWIL Software (www.avast.com)
File: ashWebSv.exe

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Users Opinions

965 users ask for this file. 3 users didn't rate it ("don't know"). 53 users rated it as not dangerous. 3 users rated it as not so dangerous. 4 users rated it as neutral. 1 user rated it as little bit dangerous.

All comments about ashWebSv.exe: Waldo Avast! Anti-virus browser virus scanner Avast Antivirus Carlo Bassetti antivirus freeware Stephen Brown Its Avast's! Web Scanner EAF It's for scanning with Avast software.  See also: Link dursuchung auf Virusen This is ANTIVIRUS software, how exactly is this dangerous Frank B. Gehört zu Avast! AntiVirus (Web Scanner Prozess) col I do have avast installed by myself Runmaster a third party program that runs with avast! antivirus that is used to ensure that all updates only replace the needed data in the virus database of avast! rather than the whole database being downloaded time after time. Can piggyback a trojan only if the trojan is present when you install avast! After it is up and running however - it is 100% safe and reliable and should not be removed. The best way to find out if it piggybacks a trojan is to run the latest version of Ad-aware se personal ( freeware ) while avast 4.6 is active in the background but not running any checks.  See also: Link Jamsoft Security This is part of Avast! Antivirus 4 Home Edition. It is completely safe. Bruce Part of the best Anti-Virus software  See also: Link Part of Avast antivirus Berserk Avast antivirus process  See also: Link JNo installed by users - definitely not dangerous... Avast Home Edition Virus Scan. There is no threat to this process. Beginner One of the best freeware Anti-viruses  See also: Link RNAcid Avast Antivirus Ben Super Virenscanner  See also: Link Kotte A Perfectly working Antivirus software, Harmless WJS AVAST! a good AntiVirus Software. And it is free for home users not engaging in comercial enterprise with their computer.  See also: Link Janet R It is a CPU hog, big time, it will completely freeze you up Knutschfleck absolut harmlos; wem soll man dann noch vertrauen , wenn nicht einem Virenscanner p It's Avast! virus scanner. Sometimes it hogs up 95% of my cpu speed. My pc seems to hang and all gets better if I disable it with taskmanager. I'm not sure wether this should happen. Tyrone My browsers would not work till i canceled this program Ruben Part of the free anti-virus scanner Avast! Esther Avast! Antivirus Hayati Kilic This is part of Awast its working under "c:\program files\alwil software\awast4" directory. so its not dangerous, do not panic... Avast! Anti-virus fly recently installed avast and seen that this process belongs to it when i installed.  See also: Link Gremlin it is slowing net very much Andy Antivirus Brian It uses an average of 20mb of memory which is just to much for an av software considering others only use kilobytes. d3xt0r Memory jamming Avast Security Scanner Shogun Part of Avast! Antivirus Philipp Virus Scanner  See also: Link Rolf Part of Avast virus scanner Patricia Takes up a lot of process, but Avast! is worth it! I won't delete this process. Enric Martinez Webscanner service von Avast! antivirus  See also: Link Ted Process Avast Antivirus TG Avast! a free anti-virus scanner that is well-regarded and has relatively small memory footprint compared to many commercial packages Jackie part of the avast antivirus suite, responsible for updates Papalarge this is part of the avast 4, if running windows xp x64 then you will not find any problems as this is what it is designed for, although make sure it is disabled in widows xp sp2 as it does not like 32 bit windows. (does not like internet in x32) i agree,my comp slowed right down after i installed avast. Fippe It's Avast Anti Virus security program, not virus, trojan, spyware nor adware. Mikki Seems to run each time i update LooseCannon Avast Antivirus If you know more about ashWebSv.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. Security Rating:  --- don't know ---  1 (not dangerous)  2  3 (neutral)  4  5 (dangerous) What do you know about this file: Link for more details: Your Name:

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