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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: AvastUser015 on June 03, 2012, 04:36:17 PM

Title: New to Avast
Post by: AvastUser015 on June 03, 2012, 04:36:17 PM
I just started using Avast yesterday. I had been using MS Security Essentials. I thought I would check out Avast. I noticed that the Windows Defender Icon showed up in Systray to notify that the def. were out of date. I have Defender disabled since I was using MSE. I downloaded update to get rid of icon. Now, should I start using Defender again? I thought Avast protects against malware too. I also use MBAM free as scanner only. What should I do? Thanks. I hope to be a long time user. I am using Vista SP2 32 bit.
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: iroc9555 on June 03, 2012, 04:39:54 PM
Welcome to Avast! forum.

A lot of Avast! users here tend to deactivate WD. Your are good only with Avast! and MBAM as a second on demand scanner.
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: Quikfix on June 03, 2012, 04:51:13 PM
As iroc9555 said, you are good with only one real-time scanner.  I highly recommend that you turn Windows Defender off, it might cause some compatibility  issues with avast!
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: AvastUser015 on June 03, 2012, 04:53:36 PM
Ok Thanks...I noticed another problem. Avast seemed to disabled MS Security Center. It wont turn back on. I know this is Avast doing  it since everything was fine before installing Avast. Maybe I should try another AV or go back to MSE,
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: iroc9555 on June 03, 2012, 04:58:57 PM
Use MSE procedure and remove tool to uninstall completely.

http://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/security-software/

Reboot and see if MS Security Center is back.
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: AvastUser015 on June 03, 2012, 05:03:50 PM
I already uninstalled MSE completely. I did this before installing Avast.
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: AvastUser015 on June 05, 2012, 07:26:29 PM
Update...after a lot of testing, installing, and uninstalling, I discovered the problem with the security center was revouninstaller and MS Security Essentials. I used Revo to uninstall MSE and it deleted registry keys related to the security center. Fortunately, I made an image of my hard drive before I made changes. I just restored the image and I did not allow Revo to delete the keys again. I then reinstalled Avast and everything is fine. Avast is running and security center is running and it recognizes Avast. I chose not to installed the additional plugins though, since I was not familiar with them.

I did have a couple of false positives though. I sent them to Avast for additional analysis.  I also uploaded them to virustotal and only 2 or 3 scanners reported a threat...that is why I believe they are false positives, but I did move them to the virus chest for now. I hope to really enjoy this program for years to come. I really like that Avast doesn't install a bunch of other utilities to try to get you to pay for them like AVG. Please don't start doing that.
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: iroc9555 on June 07, 2012, 12:57:17 AM
Quote from: AvastUser015 on June 05, 2012, 07:26:29 PM
...I discovered the problem with the security center was revouninstaller and MS Security Essentials. I used Revo to uninstall MSE and it deleted registry keys related to the security center.

I am glad you are back in business and Avast! is running well.

This is a good example why not to use RevoUninstaller for security programs.
Title: Re: New to Avast
Post by: Lisandro on June 07, 2012, 02:24:02 AM
Quote from: iroc9555 on June 07, 2012, 12:57:17 AM
This is a good example why not to use RevoUninstaller for security programs.
More than that... Even common programs that require a boot to uninstall could have problems with Revo.