Hi,
Avast causes blue screen of deaths on my computer, I’d like to write something about my experience to inform others and inform Avast over the problem.
First off:
I’m running Windows 7, 64-bit.
This is how it happened:
Last Friday I tried to download a version of fraps from usenet, I didn’t have a correct download and I suspected it to be a virus. At this moment I had my computer with ±200GB of downloads with no virus scanner at all, so I downloaded Avast and Mal warebytes to do a good scan.
I downloaded Avast from here: http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
After I scanned with both programs things started to go wrong, I started to get blue screen of deaths. I didn’t know where it came from and I suspected a virus which wasn’t detected by any of these programs. Therefore I did a boot scan which avast, which was recommended but it didn’t find any additional threats.
At this point I had no idea what was going on and I decided to reinstall windows 7 64-bit on my computer. All the junk would be off and it would clean up my computer again.
After I did this I immediately downloaded Avast again so I had “good” protection. After downloaded Avast I also did a scan, it found 7 threats. I didn’t know how this was possible because at this point in time I didn’t download anything which could have given me a virus (unless you think the following programs/downloads can give me a virus: ati drivers, firefox, winrar). Avast wasn’t able to restore it or move it to the vault so I choose to delete those threats.
After I did this the problems started again, I had a few blue screen of deaths. Not suspecting Avast at this time I looked at my hardware, I have 4 strips for 1GB ram in my computer and I hold all but one out and looked if the bsod would come back. After I had bsod I switched them, I found that which each ram strip the blue screen of death would occur. At this point I figured that there was no way all 4 of my ram strips would’ve gone broken so I concluded that it was Avast.
What I did next was remove Avast, but this didn’t work. I kept getting bsod, I had no idea what could be wrong but then I remembered that Avast did delete 7 “threats”. I concluded that Avast surely had deleted a file out of those 7 which could have caused this, I choose to reinstall windows 7 64-bit AGAIN!
Now that I have reinstalled windows 7 64-bit again I have not have any bsod (where I ussually would’ve had around 10 at this point), the only thing that changed is that at this new install I am NOT running Avast but AVG.
I find this enough evidence to conclude that Avast caused the blue screen of deaths on my computer and I’ll not install it ever again.
I hope this helped, this was purely for information purposes only I haven’t got anything against Avast nor am I trying to make a commercial for Malwarebytes or AVG.
Greetings,
a disappointed user.