Avast anti-virus

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:35 pm

My Avast updated to 7.0.1456 (which was suppose to fix a bunch of errors) and now I get errors 506 & 7018 unless I disable Avast. It is intermittent at times but thought I'd put this out. I had made the error of running the new Microsoft Security Essentials (free) at the same time as Avast but that proved to be a problem (lol) in itself.

As an added thought, I have an HP and "CLMLsvc.exe" was running. This has not given me a problem in the past but I just got a 506 with Avast disabled so am going to stop the CLMLsvc and continue testing. These intermittent problems are a royal pain.

[Edited on 7-21-2012 by thetiebers]

Post by **Vice** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:37 pm

It may not be Avast, although if it is, just report it to them via their support e-mail contact. CLMLsvc would be the more likely cause, intermittent or consistent.

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:06 pm

From post: 140901, Topic: tid=9562, author=Vice wrote: It may not be Avast, although if it is, just report it to them via their support e-mail contact. CLMLsvc would be the more likely cause, intermittent or consistent.

Thanks Vice. I will watch and see how it goes. Do I have to stop this process each time I start the computer? I ask as I don't normally mess with processes/services.

[Edited on 7-21-2012 by thetiebers]

Post by **Vice** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:33 pm

It should be a program you can uninstall (Cyberlink Media Library Service) as part of the HP media suite, if it's something you don't use anyway, which is seems most HP users never do.

I visited the Avast support forum this morning and it seems their new 7.0.1456 update has a lot of issues/problems, even with just basic system functionality. They fixed some of the blue screen crashes, memory leaks, and system functionality issues, but it seems to have introduced a number of new problems. So it wouldn't surprise me if Avast has some issues also, but I would focus on the CLMLSVC task first. I personally haven't updated to the series 7 of Avast yet anyway due to the problems they've been having. I'm still running an older program version and just staying current with definition updates.

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:48 pm

Maybe I will look into a 6 series also.

Which version works for you?

Post by **Vice** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:51 pm

From series 5, the 5.0.677 build seems to work best for me. From series 6, the last build seems to perform reliably.

Capt_Caveman · Post by **Capt_Caveman** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:58 pm

i can confirm the latest avast update makes mercenary hang.
i play with avast disabled so it's not an issue for me.
win 7 sp1 x64

[Edited on 7-21-2012 by capt_cronic]