The Avast Antivirus Screensaver

[newdad21]

HOW DO I REMOVE THE AVAST ANTIVIRUS SCREENSAVER FROM MY LIST OF SCREENSAVERS?

[pk]

Remove avastss.scr from your windows\system32 folder.
Have you had any problems with it ? Thanks.

[Lisandro]

when I activate or turn it on, the only I can turn it off is to re-boot my computer. Why is this?

This is far from normal behavior...
Could you open avast screensaver just one time and configure your own screensaver or it freezed just from the beggining?

Btw, which is your operational system?
Which screensaver where you trying to configure with avast?

[Lisandro]

Did the screensaver install when I installed the program Avast?  I do not remember installing it.  My Operating System is Windows XP.  How was I to know that it installed in Windows/system32?  I went to Windows/system32 and removed the Screensaver.

Ok, you are messing two 'screensavers' here:
1) your own screensaver, the one you usually uses that was already installed and running.
2) avast screensaver module. It's not a 'screen saver' itself but a module of avast. It scans the system 'whyle' your own screensaver (1) is called and run.

The 'active' screensaver is yours (1) and you will call it by the avast module (2). If the system freezes, your avast! installation is not good or your own screensaver (1) could be very 'interactive' and eat so much system resources or any other incompatibility between (1) and (2).

Hope I can make myself a little bit more clear.