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Avira updates often cause CPU to go to 100% - Update - it's cssd!

I've just confirmed this at three different sites where average CPU Usage is 8-to-12%.  Here's one from an instance in Amazon EC2:



Here are the lines from the Up2Date log for when a new Avira pattern was installed during the timeframe of the graph above:
/var/log/up2date/2014/02/up2date-2014-02-21.log.gz:2014:02:21-17:48:38 post auisys[21937]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5219" package="avira3"


/var/log/up2date/2014/02/up2date-2014-02-21.log.gz:2014:02:21-18:03:33 post auisys[23469]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5220" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date/2014/02/up2date-2014-02-21.log.gz:2014:02:21-18:33:51 post auisys[26549]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5221" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date.log:2014:02:22-02:32:11 post auisys[10896]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5222" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date.log:2014:02:22-03:04:18 post auisys[13874]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5223" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date.log:2014:02:22-09:18:48 post auisys[19780]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5224" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date.log:2014:02:22-09:48:07 post auisys[22941]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5225" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date.log:2014:02:22-10:19:25 post auisys[26045]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5226" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date.log:2014:02:22-10:48:35 post auisys[29032]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5227" package="avira3"

/var/log/up2date.log:2014:02:22-11:18:19 post auisys[32310]: id="371Z" severity="info" sys="system" sub="up2date" name="Successfully installed Up2Date package" status="success" action="install" package_version="9.5228" package="avira3"


Are any of the beta testers able to reproduce this?

Cheers - Bob


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