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Offline lindatkd

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Free Avast Trashed My Bluetooth
« on: May 08, 2020, 08:34:09 PM »
I've had to completely uninstall Avast. The recent update on 5/6/20 caused my PC to not even have Bluetooth. The button disappeared to turn it on and off and there was no Bluetooth category in Device Manager at all. I was also starting to get blue screens of death referencing Avast driver file aswstm.sys. Once I completely uninstalled Avast and rebooted, Bluetooth was back to normal and no more BSODs. I'm leary to reinstall Avast. Has anyone else experienced anything like this with the latest update?

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Re: Free Avast Trashed My Bluetooth
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2020, 08:34:09 AM »
- OS..? (32/64 Bit..? - which SP/Build..?)
- Other security related software installed..?
- Which AV(s) did you use before Avast..?
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
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