I am sorry if I seem a little "testy", but after trying several AV's and reformatting to get rid of all the "old crap" they put into the registry, I am a little pissed off.
None of the other AV's lock me out of using my removable media. NONE.
Only Avast. As soon as I remove Avast from my system, I can use those drives. And you can see where I could be a little P.O.'d.
I mean it's nice to have a decent AV, but I kind of like being able to use my CD reader, my CD burner, and my Zip Drive.
And those are the only drives that I know of that it locks out.
All of my HD partitions are fine, and my floppy drive is fine.
Now, I understand very well about the Norton thing, but I have since reformatted my drive several times, so therefore there are no left over reg keys in my system. Unless Norton has found a way for those somehow survive repartitioning and reformatting?
So, because nobody here knows whats going on, and since I dont get jack in the way of answers from the manufacturer, I can NOT recommend this software, even with the high marks it gets everywhere.
I am currently runnig AVG, its OK, but I actually liked the feature set of Avast.
So, IF anyone can help, please do so. I will continue monitoring this to see if it EVER gets resolved.