Anyone ever heard of a laptop running Avast Free just shutting down - suddenly powering off? This is an *OLD* Dell latitude running Win/XP - way under-spec for just about everything - ram is only 256meg, and that's all it will hold - so I don't expect much of it - but powering off suddenly seemed weird.
It started right after I installed Avast (new, clean install of the latest version), and stopped happening when I uninstalled it. Just wondered if anyone had seen this, and might know a workaround. I am running without any AV at the moment - I just use this laptop to play music through my stereo, using Videolan - so I am not overly concerned ...
I had been using Avira, but it started having some problem accessing the update server. And I run Avast with no problems on a much better laptop with Vista Home Premium.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Dan