"iavd" What is it? Gobbles up CPU.

[iGreg]

I was doing nothing with my computer and my iStat Menus was telling me something was using a lot of CPU. In Activity Monitor it showed it was "iavd." I disabled the iAntiVirus background "Protect My Mac" scan and "iavd" stopped using CPU. When I enable "Protect My Mac" again immediately, I do not see "iavd" using any CPU.

What is going on? When I say it was using a lot of CPU I mean a lot, hovering between 30 and 90 something percent according to Activity Monitor.

No background scans are scheduled.

I did have it set to check for updates on weekly basis, but the antiVirus History did not say it was doing that. Could it be that when I disabled the "Protect My Mac" background scan it stopped the update checker midstream and so did not report that in the History?

The I antivirus History says nothing was going on, except that its engine is loaded and running

I do not have Parallels installed.

[RevanRules]

This is a known issue with iAntivirus and there doesn't appear to be a solution yet. There are at least two other threads already discussing the issue:

http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55829

and

http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57292

[MacAttack]

iGreg... darn, why didn't I think of that name??
Yeah, there's a few threads about this already, going back to January. And no, there's no fix yet. If you have troubles with it, take it off login items, and quit. I don't keep it running anymore because it seems to like to do this about once a day if you do.