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I have tried both AVG and Avast. AVG (even up to v7) gave me problems with telling me it disinfected a virus on systems only to find the virus still there. I have been using Avast happily for years without any problems. [/align] [/align]___________________________________________________________________
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+1 JefferyH

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Well avast just pi$$ed me off. Update 5.0 is available do you want to install now? Freezes up at some point. Kill it. Can't restart update, can't reinstall 4.8, computer restarts.
I'm trying MS Security Essentials for a while.

MS Security Essentials and MS Windows Live OneCare are the same if anyone is interested. Live OneCare just has more features such as backup built into it.

OneCare is a retail product, and Security Essentials is free.

I found that I was able to exclude my Matrix folder from real time scanning with MSSE. I hope that is the same as turning off the av when I play a game.

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Well avast just pi$$ed me off. Update 5.0 is available do you want to install now? Freezes up at some point. Kill it. Can't restart update, can't reinstall 4.8, computer restarts.
I'm trying MS Security Essentials for a while.

Avast installs several virtual devices. They still might be running in the background. Open the device manager, change view to "show hidden devices", open the "non-pnp drivers" tree, and stop all avast drivers/services plus "aswRdr" on the driver page of the particular driver properties. Security fragments may prevent updating or reinstalling avast.
Then try to reinstall 4.8 .

Also, Avast has an update-option where you can switch from "ask, if new version is available" to "manual (update)". That's one of the first option I'm heading for, if I install an AV package, as I don't want some beta-AV-update to fiddle with my system.

I ended up downloading their uninstaller and had to restart in safe mode to run it. All gone now on my computer. Still have it on the wife's. Will give MSSE a chance.

The worst software experience I have ever had was with Norton trying to do the uninstall via the add/remove programs menu. After appearing to kill the harddrive I found that the way was to do it via the Norton site. I was able to recover the harddrive with a stroke of luck. I had something get by AVG one time and wiped my boot sector but had very good luck with AVAST free edition and I liked the way it was setup and worked.
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SOAB these one shot poster/spammers are getting really, really good......not even a misspelled word in the posts.

Yep, I shut down Avast 4.8 and switched to 5.0. It looks good so far.

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