Hi. I am new here, I have the following problem, and I'd appreciate any help I can get. :-)
I've just installed Avast Home Edition v4, on a laptop protected by Free CompuSec v4.24. CompuSec, in case you don't know, is an HDD encryption product from CE Infosys. Here is their web site:
http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/products/free_compusec.html. My OS is Windows XP Pro w/ SP2.
Anyway, I've been using CompuSec together with AVG Antivirus v7.5 for about a year, and had no problems. Having decided to switch to Avast, rather than upgrade to AVG v8, I uninstalled AVG, rebooted, installed Avast, and rebooted. Upon restart, the CompuSec challenge comes up, as usual. I get through that, and Windows seems to lode just fine until it gets to the point where the login screen should come up. Here the screen goes black. I can see my mouse cursor, and move it around, but nothing else. Every attempt at input, be it via keyboard or mouse button, results in zero response from the PC. My only option at this point is to do a hard shutdown.
I can boot into safe mode without a hitch, and if I uninstall Avast, (or just do a system restore to an earlier restore point) I can boot back into normal mode. But if I reinstall Avast, the problem comes back. My best guess is that Avast doesn't like CompuSec GINA, but I'm not sure what to do about it (or even if that assumption is in fact correct). I've tried disabling CompuSec's single sign-on feature, but that didn't help.
I would like to keep both CompuSec and Avast if possible, so if anybody can help me out, please do so. Thanks very much in advance. :-)
