Hi, i got the new download last week for Avast free home version. The serial number is in it. This is a new install Windows Millennium operating system with no other antivirus on it. Windows update has been completed with all the updates. When i go to use the manual scanner to scan, it goes few minutes and locks up where i have to reboot it, or it reboot's itself. There's also a horrizontal black bar in the upper left screen area that appear's. I have the log set to come on for the scan results but since it freezes, i can't get to it. I have System Restore shut off. Also, the P2P and Messenger scanners are off. This is the E-Machines 600 Celeron with 256 pc 133 ram. The bios has the latest 105 version. It is a new hard drive 7200. This morning i tried running scandisk throrough, and that froze up with that horrizontal black bar in the upper left. I tried it again with the systray Avast icon's not running and still got a blue screen Vxd fatal exception error. Any suggestions? Could it be the ram as this takes pc 100 and i have two 128 meg sticks of pc 133 Kingston in it. But, it ran alright untill the Avast installation.
Thanks -LB