So I searched the internet to see if others had also experienced similar problems. It appears that some people did have this problem but only with XP.
Windows 7 users appeared to be unaffected by the upgrade.
Nope, that's not the case with respect to XP vs Win7 ... there are posts here in this area where users with Win7 have gotten BSOD with version 8 ... including myself.
Now, yesterday A.M. I got the notice from my Avast about updating to version 8. I updated it and within 2 minutes BSOD appeared.
What I've done ... because I had somewhat the same issues with going to version 7....
- Rebooted my computer and within 1 minute Bsod came back.
- Rebooted my computer in safe-mode with Network, and did some browsing in this forum and found
some other users (with Win7 and XP) getting BSOD's
- After reading them I decided to download and install memtst86 and tested my memory for about 6 hours ... two mem-passes
in that time with no errors... part of my BSOD indicated a possible memory issue.
- While in safe-mode I download Avast uninstaller and the latest version 7 of Free Avast....
- Booted back into normal mode and it ran for about 6-8 minutes then BSOD
- Booted in safe-mode again, uninstalled AVAST8, rebooted into normal mode, installed version 7
- Everything was fine for about 3 hours and then Avast notified me that an update was available and I didn't notice that the
message was about version 8 ... and not an update to version 7 ... I clicked update (my bad
) and it updated to 8 and a BSOD
happened within about 2 minutes.
- Got back into safe-mode, uninstalled version 8, booted into normal mode and installed version 7 ... AND, I won't update again
untill I've seen/got an absolute fix for this... and now I a little concerned about the hundreds of Avast recommendations I've made
to user that I've made on the MozillaZine board. And, all my friends not use Avast and I hope that it doesn't come back to
bite me.
My system uses Windows Firewall and only Avast. "All" OS and app. software up to date.
So, if anybody has a perfect cure for this I'd be real happy so that I can feel better about my recommendations.