Avast 5.0 freezes on boot-time scan

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IOBit Theft Conclusion

Some weeks ago we presented evidence demonstrating that the Chinese company IObit had stolen Malwarebytes’ database and incorporated it into their software. In the days that followed we saw a complete denial of wrongdoing by IObit. They ascribed the matches between their database and our own to anonymous sample submissions, a dubious claim which we debunked.
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=33217

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You might be a bit right with your surprisingly negative statements concerning ASC and IObit Security 360 v1.50 as !

After last update of ASC yesterday my both browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox stalled with rotating logo !

  • Hijackthis reported about Unknown File in WINSOCK related to ASC
  • I did not try to manipulate WINSOCK, but uninstalled ASC instead

Thereafter everething worked normally again !

Summa Summarum:

  • it´s obvious, that last update of ASC is NOT w2k-compatible !
    (possible risky with other OS´s as well !?)

Therefore it´s better to start/continue to denigrate ASC !

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I’m glad things are working fine for you now. :smiley: Often ASC will leave some remnants behind, so you may want to run CCleaner to get rid of them, then defrag your system to speed things up, then reboot. See how your machine runs over the next few days and if all goes well report back…with continued good news (I hope). :wink:

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W2k is still going strong …

  • I may slowly possible start thinking to try AVAST Boot-Time-Scan again !?

I have still IObit Security 360 v1.50 running - keeps informing new sw´s pendings -
ASC is and stays removed - Hijackthis found actually five “Unknown Files” related ASC

I use regularly YL Software´s WinUtilities 9.86 for “housekeeping”

  • any experiences/comments ?
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Did you run CCleaner and the registry cleaner after uninstalling ACS? You can safely remove these files. You may also want to go into Safe Mode > Search > All Files and Folders > More Advanced Options (everything checked off except Case Sensitive) > Type in ASC in the top box > Search. Repeat the steps but type in Advanced System Optimizer instead and see if anything comes up. Anything that comes up on the right side of the window, you can delete → Put in the recycle bin, the delete with CCleaner while in Safe Mode. If in doubt of a file, right-click it > Properties to see if it belongs to ACS. Restart your machine and you are done.

I would stick with CCleaner and defragging. See if free Puran defrag will allow you to download on to your system: http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag.html. It does a regular defrag plus a boot-time defrag and it light on your system. That is all you need for “housekeeping.”

Yes, I would try the Avast boot-scan again after your definitions are updated. Let us know if you have any problems. Thanks. :slight_smile:

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IObit Security 360 v1.50 is now also removed and everything works even better!

I have noticed a phenomen of “leaking handles” long time ago - possibly since IObit installation. Leakingspeed on idle was abt. 10.000 handles/h.
Taskmanager located the leakage now into IObit Security 360 v1.50.
As result memory use dropped 25% and nbr. of handles 10% without any leakage !
IObit Security 360 v1.50 was used for “Patrolling” of possible changes in critical areas due certain sw-trials.
Earlier I used Winpatrol succesfully for that.

  • any experiences/comments ?

I´ll follow the situation for a while now and proceed as proposed.

Thanks ::slight_smile:

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I will never trust IObit again after they steal MBAM property. They’re thieves.
Winpatrol is very good, stable and does the job.