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Downloads not working when avast is active
« on: January 22, 2015, 06:04:35 PM »
Hi,
I have got a new PC with Win 8.1 64 bit. Installaed avast free (currently 2015.10.0.2208). In most (if not all) cases I now try to download something from Internet (using Firefox), the download does not seem to be complete (if it is an exe, the exe cannot be run; if it is a zip, the zip cannot be opened). After switching avast off, it works. For example:
I have just downloaded a zip of about 23Mb, three times with avast switched on, once with avast disabled. All four files have different sizes, differing by between 40 and 1000 kB; and all three downloaded with avast on are corrupted.
Thanks for any help.

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Re: Downloads not working when avast is active
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2015, 06:36:06 PM »
Is windows defender disabled?
Is (or was) there other security software on the system?
Tried with another browser?
Is downloading through ftp working?

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Re: Downloads not working when avast is active
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2015, 04:46:42 PM »
Thanks for replying.

- Windows defender is enabled.
- There was McAfee preinstalled. I think I deinstalled it completely, at least I got no error message during de-installation, do not see it anymore in the "Programs and features" list, and do not find remaining files or processes in the Task Manager nor in the registry.
- With Internet Explorer -> same problem
- I donĀ“t know how to do an ftp-download; probably easy to find out, but to test I would have to best a zip file which can be downloaded via http and via ftp, to compare.

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Re: Downloads not working when avast is active
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2015, 07:24:03 PM »
- Disable Windows Defender
- Remove McAfee and avast completely.
- Perform a clean installation of avast

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Re: Downloads not working when avast is active
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2015, 11:32:32 AM »
Hi,
thanks very much, in particular for the link to the tools for removing the programs completely. Having done this and the reinstallation of avast, it seems to work correctly now!

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Re: Downloads not working when avast is active
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2015, 11:53:57 AM »
Always good to hear a problem is solved.

The link is to one of my websites.
Many people don't know that often remnants remain after uninstalling a application from control panel.
And those remnants can cause conflicts with newly installed applications.