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AVAST come’on and wakeup friends. This is a real problem, rolling now [realtime].
I’ve installed AVAST a number of times mostly without issues. This time its your issue.
New/fresh installation of Vista Business 32 provided by Dell, on a Dell Optiplex [that’s their top business desktop] 755 system, fresh WD caviar 500gb. Came up fine and got it all cleaned up and spiffy. Later, after user installed his printer and got all setup to go, with Windows UPDATES turned OFF [highly recommended for VISTA users] we got the error. Checking MS forum post dubbed “NOTE TO USERS OF AVAST 6”, The MS responders there are recommending that AVAST 6 users uninstall Avast and run the cleanup utility and pick another/better Antivirus solution like Windows Live Essentials.
While I object to their lazy way of dealing with the problem, its the way things work: the big expect the smaller to correct THEIR code first.

Get on this so I do not have to start recommending [blah] AVG… or worse.

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/genuinevista/thread/E2F066B3-2517-41BC-8FAD-4C036F2F4AC8?prof=required