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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Bud33 on May 22, 2014, 11:40:10 PM

Title: Avast blocking Microsoft Works
Post by: Bud33 on May 22, 2014, 11:40:10 PM

Today when I tried to log into my Microsoft Works It was blocked and the EXE file blocked.
Can anyone tell me why? I've been running this program   for years with out a problem and just logged in yesterday. Today when I clicked on the shortcut it could not find the program. :'(

Title: Re: Avast blocking Microsoft Works
Post by: Para-Noid on May 23, 2014, 12:05:29 AM

Screenshot?
Did you get an avast pop-up?
Need more information...
OS?
Other security software?

What little information you gave it's difficult to give you any assistance.

Title: Re: Avast blocking Microsoft Works
Post by: DavidR on May 23, 2014, 12:23:19 AM

I suspect that this is a very old copy of MS Works and the executable isn't on the avast cloud database (not in common use).

I had similar blocking of old MS Office, Word and Excel executables.

You say you can't find it, was it moved to the virus chest ?