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jenray

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Tried Repair of AVAST in Add/Remove utility
« on: April 13, 2013, 12:22:11 PM »
Hi, I've just tried Repair of my AVAST Internet Security prog in Add/Remove software in my Windows XP. Tried doing a Quick Scan and it crashed my computer again. Before it did it on the Full Scan. Definitely something to do with the scan trying to scan SVC files, which I think are Microsoft's files. It looks like they're stopping the scan at a certain point and actually succeeding in crashing the whole program. Prior to this, these SVC files never appeared on the scans so why are they there now? :-\
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Re: Tried Repair of AVAST in Add/Remove utility
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2013, 06:26:08 PM »
Crash or freeze?

If I'm not mistaken all "svc" files have an "exe" extension. Therefore they should be scanned.
Try a repair from safe mode.  :)
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Re: Tried Repair of AVAST in Add/Remove utility
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2013, 06:32:52 PM »
Para-Noid,thanks for information.
I didn't know that is possible to do repair from safe mode.
I don't need to do repair Avast,but it is good to know.
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