"Off-topic means that if a thread has the title "Move or delete eicar causes freeze" we should indeed discuss eicar-related freezes here. If you want to suggest that Win9x users should be somehow notified about the necessity of reconfiguring their web browsers for WebShield, please post a separate thread."
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post : I have 4.6.602 installed on a win95a system. If I go to
www.eicar.org and download eicar.com and choose delete or move when it is detected it causes the computer to freeze.
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post : Let me start out by saying I am NOT trying to flame you!! That said, even with web shield shut down Avast still froze.
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post : The freezes occurred while trying to delete the eicar test file and stopped after configuring the proxy servers. Once Avast froze it became very unstable and rebooting then running scan disk made no difference. The only way to make the program stable again was to completely uninstall the program then reinstall.
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If these post aren't about eicar-related freezes what is? Sounds like someone can't take even minor criticism about their software and I am just wasting my time posting here. This is my last post on this thread.