Avast 5 just killed my Win XP pro dual boot config

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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FIY - This time choosing boot option “last known good conf. mode” worked miracles. All other modes did not work.

FUNNY that avast 5 is now installed having chosen “last known good conf. mode” and not having a chance to boot up normally?!?!? There is definitely something off somewhere.

Trying to allow av5IS to run flaged “Following component could not be started” - I turned off the WinXP Firewall and rebooted still not working

What gives?

OK - I tried this and it also did not work

then locate the file “aswNdis2.sys” and rename it to "“aswNdis2.sys.old”

So I reinstalled avast 5 - uninstalled it again - and reinstalled it again - and I am now back where XP will not start… F this

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CONCLUSION:

[b]avast 5.0499 will not install on my system

avast 5.0.462 however did install [/b]
this is the free edition and from within there I am hopping to upgrade to AIS with my license…

(16 hours later)

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after 30 minutes or so Windows prompted me that there is an update to install.

I rebooted a bunch of times before that - to make sure I have a clean boot to do that update.

It started updating 1 of 2, and later 2 of 2 at shutdown.

AND I AM BACK TO NOT BEING ABLE TO BOOT AT ALL - NOT EVEN A BLUE ERROR SCREEN

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http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=58486.msg493230#msg493230

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