cavwp.exe?

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What is cavwp.exe doing? It has two tasks running with the same name, different PID’s. And one of the tasks keeps cycling on and sucking up a lot of CPU cycles.

I tried terminating the tasks but they are blocked and I was not allowed.

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Most likely a scheduled scan is running. In particular the full scan profile scheduled scan.

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44% CPU seems like a lot for a scan given that I am running on an I7-4790K CPU + have 16GB of RAM.

How much resources does Comodo need to run?

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  1. You can’t terminate the process if HIPS is enabled.
  2. It’s not acceptable if it’s (any) constant value / 60s. Indicated utilization is most likely not a constant value. (Looks OK.)
  3. You could improve it by deactivating ‘Decompress and scan compressed files’ option under Antivirus ~ Scans ~ Full Scan > Edit >> Options.
  4. Currently, there are some known issues with certain files which trigger abnormal CPU utilization.