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Offline vistascape

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avast antivirus disables my internet on startup, why?
« on: May 08, 2012, 09:28:48 PM »
hello everyone

ive just installed avast antivirus free and when starting my pc, my internet doesnt work, i have to inactivate and then activate it in network settings to get internet to work.

why is this happening?

have vista 64bit...

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Re: avast antivirus disables my internet on startup, why?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2012, 09:38:10 PM »
Hmmm... Which other security program do you have installed? Which firewall?
avast is an antivirus, does not change network/connection settings...
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Re: avast antivirus disables my internet on startup, why?
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2012, 09:47:55 PM »
Hmmm... Which other security program do you have installed? Which firewall?
avast is an antivirus, does not change network/connection settings...
nothing, just free avast and the normal bitdefender already in windows at start...

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Re: avast antivirus disables my internet on startup, why?
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2012, 09:56:51 PM »
do you mean you have avast and bitdefender antivirus installed?

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Re: avast antivirus disables my internet on startup, why?
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2012, 10:32:11 PM »
do you mean you have avast and bitdefender antivirus installed?
pardon me, i wrote wrong, i have windows defender that was already installed...

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Re: avast antivirus disables my internet on startup, why?
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2012, 03:50:09 AM »
anyone?

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Re: avast antivirus disables my internet on startup, why?
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2012, 07:25:20 AM »
try to unninstall with this tool......run from safe mode and reboot
then install again and reboot


http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility