Multiple COMODO Internet Security tasks

Comodo Internet Security - CIS AntiVirus Help - CIS
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I am using COMODO Free in Win8.1. My Toshiba laptop has been running very slow so I opened the Task Manager to see what was going on. When I select the Disc Drive column it showed 100% a lot of the time and 3 or more entries near the top of the list are all named “COMODO Internet Security”! Last night there were 3 of those tasks running near the top of the display. Right now there are 6 of those tasks near the top of the list! Is this what I should expect to see?

Does COMODO Free have a feature where it will use less resources if the laptop is being used by a user?

Thanks,
Bill

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Hi and welcome wpw,
The following quote shows what all the individual processes are for.

Hope that helps.

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Thanks for the detailed answer to my primary question.

Does anyone have an answer to the following question that was in my original message?

Thanks,
Bill

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Can you next time check under the Details tab of Task Manager which CIS executables are running?

Cavwp.exe will run it updates the av defintions, scheduled scan or cache cleaner/cache builder tasks are executed. To see what task are or were running you use the CIS task manager or check the Tasks log to cross reference.

I have an old netbook and I found that the following processes need to be added to the AV’s Excluded Applications because they will upset the AV component:
c:\Windows\System32\mcbuilder.exe
c:\Windows\WinSxS*\TiWorker.exe
c:\Windows\System32\MRT.exe
c:\Windows\System32\mmc.exe

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Thanks for the info Eric. I haven’t been able to find the Excluded Applications list. The version I’m running says it is 8.4.0.5068.

Thanks,
Bill

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The second half of this Help page tells how to add executables to the Excluded Applications. You have to scroll down quite a bit.