Easy Installing, Uneasy Uninstalling.

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi everyone.

I have another computer that is a 1998 IBM running on Windows XP. No SP1 or SP2. Computer not connected to the net. Intel Pentium 3.

I installed avast! 4.6 in the early 2007. I uninstalled avast! 4.6 at March using Control Panel. Then I noticed that the VRDB was still working ever since! So a couple of hours ago, i used the avast! uninstall utility and selected C:\Program Files\Awil Software.

It deleted the file, then asked me to restart my computer. So I Did.

It restarted, them went to the welcome screen. As soon as I typed the first letter, it restarted again! It wanted to do a disk check. I did and found no problems. Then it finally let me log in. After I logged in a window poped up saying “Windows has recovered from a serious error.” I had a look at the technical report but said nothing.

Why cant avast make it so we dont have to uninstall it ourself when they could delete thier own folder while uninstalling avast!?

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Do you mean the file was left behind… but working is impossible with avast uninstalled.

For sure there were a problem on your uninstallation. But the standalone uninstall tool should (and did) do it.

Which other antivirus are you using? When did you install it (before or after trying to manage VRDB from avast)?

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I wasn’t using any other anti-virus, just avast.

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Oh… An uninstallation trouble indeed.
Did you try the last 4.7.1001 version of avast? If you use the computer off-line, you can configure avast to a minimum…

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Nah, It’s alright. I have avast! on my computer that’s connected to the internet. The one i’m using now. :slight_smile:

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Glad to know, but we hate mysteries… Did you know discover what was wrong?

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Unfortunatly not. It still happens.

It’s probably not avast!.

You see, each time my computer is idle, my computer keeps on trying do to something cause i can see the light on my computer, when I move my mouse, it stops.

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If you right click the ‘a’ blue icon (or the ‘i’ icon) and check VRDB menu, how is it set to be built? When computer is idle or when the screen saver is running?

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I Dont have avast on it anymore though.

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So you’ll need to research what is wrong in your computer… avast won’t be guilty in this case…

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You’re right, thanks Tech.

I’ll have a hunt down after school.

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If you need help, we’ll be here 8)

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Unfortunatly I couldn’t find anything!

Oh well. I’ll put spyware terminator on it and see if it works.

Didn’t Find want I wanted.

Made a new topic:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=28662

Look there Tech.