Sorry I did not respond in the morning as I previously said I would.. Had an appointment that could not be avoided.
Maybe these new meds will bring my BP back down ( was 182/110!!-no wonder i had such a terrible headache, although I'm sure this annoying computer problem has not helped!
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Anyway... Ran both IE and FF in safe mode, still get the threat detected alarms. I manually went in to both FF and IE and also made sure that each add-on was disabled before opening them back up only to get the alarm. Both will open the yahoo homepage, but will send up and alarm when anything is typed into the search field. Neither browser likes the igoogle home page and will not even load it. Neither browser will do searches using any of the popular search engines ( google, yahoo, bing), but I can access webpages if typed CORRECTLY an COMPLETELY into the address bar, if that makes sense. Avast still send up the alarm, but will actually open a webpage when the address is typed into the address field.
Ex: If Ityped "avast" into the search field, I get an alarm, and a page not loaded message..
If I typed "forum.avast.com" in the address field, I get an alarm, but the page will load..
Sure that doesn't help, but thought I'd tell you anyway..
Elizabeth