Avast! freezes all my programs

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Just loaded Avast! The system seems to run fine, until I open a program–any program. The program rapidly freezes up and will not allow me to close, even with task manager. The system itself is still running, and I can open another program–which will in turn freeze up and not allow itself to be closed. Meanwhile, CPU usage remains at a minimum. If I restart and disable Avast! everything works perfectly–programs open, function, and close normally–which would seem to suggest that Avast! itself is the problem.

Prior to installing Avast! I removed all other security software from my system. I’m running Win XP. Any wisdom out there?

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which were your previously installed security programs?
how did you remove them? uninstall via the control panel? use uninstall tools?

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Symantec Internet Security. Used the control panel, which in turn opened up the Symantec uninstall utility.

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OK all is not gone try the Norton uninstall utility from here http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039 reboot
then try again

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That did the trick, onlysomeone. Thanks for your help. And for providing yet another example of why Symantec needed to be out of my life.

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There are some who feel it is harder to get rid of symantec than to get rid of an infection ;D

Welcome to the forums.

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You’re welcome, allthough essexboy did the work :slight_smile: