Freshclam AV suddenly using 50-80% CPU

[maciaccio]

This is what I did to completely remove clamav:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge clamav
sudo apt-get purge clamav-base
sudo apt-get purge clamav-freshcl
sudo apt autoremove
sudo rm -r /var/lib/clamav

Autoremove got rid of two unused lib entries.
The last line removed a lingering folder