After some experimenting , i still cant find any conflicts with other programmes as avast behaves the same with everything shutdown when clickng the eicar.com file.What ihave found is that when ashserve.exe stops responding (info in control alt delete) and i then shut down ashserve and restart it again , it works perfectly on the eicar.com file.Im at a loss as to what it can be at th moment.Mayeb if theres anyone here with 98se they could try the file so i can rule out an operating system problem.
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