Help

Yesterday I uninstalled Norton antivirus and had chosen to try Avast 4 Home Edition. I went through the downloading process from the Avast website and at some point was given an option to perform a scan in the boot process, which I chose. As the scanning process was long I went away for a bit and returned to find my laptop in hibernation state and could not get it to respond, so the screen was black. I unplugged my laptop. Avast isn’t loaded but now I find that I cannot get on the internet using Internet Explorer. I get strong signals but internet explorer comes up but with the message it can’t connect.

I don’t know what to do, but am considering either loading anew version of internet explorer or firefox. I am using Windows Vista. The worst case I guess if to reload my whole operating system. I already tried to restore my system to two days before but no luck. Please help me. Thanks

with Vista click “run as administrator”
First we have to get completely get rid of Norton
First remove avast with add-remove programs
then
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-uninstall-utility.html
then
go here
http://www.pchell.com/virus/uninstallnorton.shtml
be sure to run the uninstaller
then go here
http://www.pchell.com/virus/uninstallantivir.shtml
and start in the middle of the page
What if Windows Security Center Shows AntiVir or other muliple Antivirus products installed
then
run the Antivir Registry Cleaner
http://dl.antivir.de/down/windows/registrycleaner.zip
following the instructions on the PC Hell page-- Works for all AV
then
Reinstall Avast

someone else will have to sort out IE and Vista issues- is their a repair option in add-remove programs for IE?
hopefully firefox will work for you
I guess you will have to get a browser up first or load programs via a pen drive or burn cd’s from a friends computer

Posting multiple topics for the same problem just causes duplication for those trying to help, having just answered your first topic, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=38120.msg319110#msg319110.

hi when i had avast everytime i click on like settings the word of the settings stay on my desktop only time it will go off is if i restart my computer …it never did this before untell i had to reistall it and thats when it started i try to unstill it and re install it again and its still the same plz let me know whats going on ty…and is that avast 5.0 out yet just let me know what i can do about that avast 4.8 ty

Never post twice the same (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=38133.msg319602#msg319602).
Better will be opening a new thread for your specific problem.

sorry about that im new on here and i just made a new topic ty

And I have just answered it ;D http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=38171.msg319796#msg319796.