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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: loki on February 05, 2010, 09:13:44 PM
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Anybody have this issue? Not sure it's Avast, but it's the only thing I updated. I now have 5.0.396 - Free Version. It completely freezes except for some use of the mouse cursor and keyboard. I can bring up the Windows Security window, but can't bring up task manager or shut down. I will start process explorer tonight and see what happens as I think I can at least view it to see what was last running before the freeze. There is backup software running at night too Areca - but it seems to be working.
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Read back a few days....your problem is comon along with a lot of us that just blue screen after updates.....then avast says package broken and has to be re-installed. So maybe you are better off then some of us. I think I got around it for now by turning off auto update and am updating manually for now........best of luck ....Peter
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It happened earlier today again - so it's NOT the backup software, as it only runs at night. I do have MBAM, Opera, and The Bat! (email client) running. Had to restart. I uninstalled Avast - because the next problem may be much more serious - that's how many of my week-long recoveries started - by resets, etc. I'll let you know if it happens now that it's uninstalled (and the registry has been cleaned of it's residue).
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Made it through the night just fine. It IS Avast SW. Now will wait till it's fixed. It's hard to say exactly, but I think I've had more problems with AV virus SW than with viruses themselves! Had terrible incidents with both Norton and McAfee where I had to completely reinstall either Windows or a HD!
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Not sure what you've read from other posts, but Avast and the real-time module from MBAM pro seem to have a problem running together at the moment. You might want to try turning that off for a bit and see if that solves your problem.
HTH, Gizbar.