I switched from AVG to Avast a few days ago and have had nothing but problems since. I am running Vista from an administrator account. I also use ZoneAlarm 7. Every thirty or so minutes I will lose internet access. When I close Firefox and try to reopen it, I get a "Firefox is already running" error. Firefox.exe is indeed running, and when I try to terminate the process I cannot. My computer will also not be able to restart - I actually have to turn off the computer by holding down the power button.
None of this was happening before I installed Avast, and since Avast won't let me completely close it, I can't see if it actually is Avast causing the problem. I've tried disabling all the On-Access Protections, but nothing seems to work. I don't want to go back to AVG because it likes to sneak bloatware onto my computer, but this is just too much.
What is going on here?