Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2263 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=186192.0 With best Regards Mops21
P.S. Avast, in its infinite wisdom, decided that my ethernet connection was bad and stopped me from connecting. Took awhile to figure out it was Avast, but I knew for sure when I uninstalled it and miracle of miracles, I was able to get back on the world wide web. Not nice, moved to the 6 month AVG Suite for now.
A little bit related to avast and others too http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/technology/personaltech/dodging-the-computer-kidnappers.html?_r=0
Don't know if this has been fixed since, but awhile back it stopped a relative's PC from getting emails from her ISP, Bigpond, in Australia! I had to move her on to Avira to fix the problem, and it did take me a while to figure that one out. That was the first time I've come across an AV stopping email, although wasn't unheard of before.
Kind of glad to hear I was not alone with the problem, in a weird way. Itt certainly confused me... After some time trying to figure it out (was it hardware failure, etc.) I did fix it, but only by getting rid of Avast. Not inclined at this time to reverse my decision to change over to AVG... even though this offer is only a six month license. It will give me enough time to look around again for the next best anti-virus program. <shrug>
Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2264 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=186408.0 With best Regards Mops21
Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2265 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=186628.0 With best Regards Mops21
Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2266 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=186860.0 With best Regards Mops21
It's funny that Avast will make boot-time scan as "on-demand downloadable" while ads, cleaner, etc. remain, are added or enhanced. I can understand it if they already actually improved other areas of protection making boot-time scanning almost useless.
Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2267 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=187055.0 With best Regards Mops21
Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2268 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=187288.0 With best Regards Mops21
A bit off topic, but seems like they have released Avast Cleanup. But guess what, it doesn't work when it can't access the Internet, I really wonder how big companies like Avast can come up with such crap. https://blog.avast.com/avast-cleanup-is-ready-for-beta-testing
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Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2270 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=187426.0 With best Regards Mops21
Just tried 2 Avast betas. Free is as usually light and no problems. Premier is lite except slow browsers start in Sandbox. Though it must be not a beta problem. Cheers!
Hi all Avast Free Antivirus NEW: Beta version released - 2016.12.1.2271 https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=187525.0 With best Regards Mops21
The other day a friend asked me to uninstall Avast Free Antivirus as it took well over 5 mins after booting to complete it's start up tasks, which made the comp almost unusable whilst doing so. Vista - 1.6Mhz - 2.5M Ram - Fast internet. I first tried the internal Avast uninstall which never completed even after 45 mins, & froze ! I rebooted & tried again, not much better ! So i went online & found the Officlal Avast uninstaller from their www. Ran it & it said it was unable to complete & needed to be run in Safe Mode, so i did which worked. The thing is, the regular uninstaller should be able to do all that. Why it doesn't ? Altogether it took well over an hour to uninstall = not good ! Trialing another AV for a month.
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