I am VERY UN-happy :
Friday I downloaded :
avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe 87 529 432 14/11/2013 21:19
avastclear.exe 350 080 14/11/2013 21:18
Saturday I started my XP in safe mode on the command line interface and I typed fullpath\avastclear.exe : this was not recognized as a command or exe... Why ?
I thought that I have noted wrongly the name and entered fullpath\aswClear.exe 306 736 05/10/2011 22:01 that I used in a previous occasion. Success was reported with erasure of register keys, etc. .
So I rebooted to normal Windows.
I went to c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\ : it was still here and huge : I erased it.
I went to c:\Program Files\ and erased the Avast part that was still here.
Then I used CCleaner to check and correct my register keys, avast keys were still here. CCleaner corrected this.
I tried several times to execute the downloaded avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe : crash of windows on the first avast icon with the turning whell and check of the disk partition...
I downloaded again (from 01net ) thinking that the previous download was corrupted : avast_free_antivirus_setup01.exe 85 269 544 16/11/2013 17:05 not the same size : Why ?
Same crash as the previous version !
I tried avast_free_antivirus_setup_online.exe 4 735 048 06/11/2013 15:03 that I have used to install Avast 2014 : partial success : it was installed but not running, and asked for registration before becoming active when registered. I thought that I had 30 days for registration ! The online exe is nice because it allow the installation of Avast in an other partition : 316 MO. off-loaded of C: ! (I have checked, nothing in c:\Program Files). But the logs remain in C: .
When I tried to receive my mails from Gmail with Thunderbird I found an other problem : the new address with encryption at Thunderbird level was working but the old ones defined at the time where encryption was done by Avast have stopped to work. I tried without success to modify the parameters in the old account : I had to suppress the old account, and create a new one with the saved profile and mailboxes but the filters are no more working : I have to reinitialise the folder definition...
Do you wish to discourage users ?
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