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manual scan should run...safe mode won't load necessary drivers for real time AV you didn't try ?
Quote from: Logos on January 30, 2010, 10:18:57 PMmanual scan should run...safe mode won't load necessary drivers for real time AV you didn't try ?ok i tried to run it (by executing it from its desktop icon) and nothing comes up.
Quote from: mrnapolean1 on January 30, 2010, 10:20:16 PMQuote from: Logos on January 30, 2010, 10:18:57 PMmanual scan should run...safe mode won't load necessary drivers for real time AV you didn't try ?ok i tried to run it (by executing it from its desktop icon) and nothing comes up.OK can't remember the behavior of V4 in safe mode, that was just a guess...partially off topic: anyway I just gave it a try with V5 and it's a no go, see screen shot, I didn't check but I guess avast services can't start at all in safe mode and are still needed for manual scans.
you're gonna have to go through some troubleshooting by by uninstalling applications one by one and reboot, to find out which one could be the culprit. Otherwise did you attempt a system restore to a time before things started to go wrong?
Quote from: Logos on January 30, 2010, 11:04:13 PMyou're gonna have to go through some troubleshooting by by uninstalling applications one by one and reboot, to find out which one could be the culprit. Otherwise did you attempt a system restore to a time before things started to go wrong?System restore was turned off.