I've read that some users installed an old version of Avast, like 2014, and they resolved it. Is it safe? Where can I get a good version?
Many thanks in advance.
Bender01,
I'm running Avast Free on a Vista 32 bit machine and I noticed that the freezing/lockups started with 2015.10.3.2223. I tried rolling back my graphics driver, Firefox, Windows Updates, and Flash Player but I still got the lockups.
I then rolled back to Avast Free 2015.10.2.2215 and the lockups stopped completely. You can download the old version at oldapps.com.
I have now reinstalled everything
except Avast to it's latest version and my machine is still running stable. I suggest that you download 2015.2.2215 and avastclear.exe, uninstall 2015.10.3.2225, run avastclear, then install 2015.10.2.2215.
PS, Last weekend, I accidentally updated Avast to the latest version and my Vista machine froze/locked up within 5 minutes. Now waiting/hoping the next version of Avast fixes this problem.