I know this was covered in a previous topic, but I don't think it was dealt with. The problem seemed to go away for the guys.
The Avast Standard Shield Provider prevents the IBM Thinkvantage Access Connection software from running. It starts, then stalls. If I stop the provider, Access Connection continues to start, and works fine. Since this was a friend's computer, I thought the easy answer would be to replace Avast with AVG, despite my long, long, positive relationship with Avast, however, the same problem exists with AVG. Obviously this is not a problem with Avast, but any ideas what's going on?
BTW - I put Avast back. It is definitely the better product.