OK so I downloaded & saved to my desktop both the uninstall utility & current version of Avast. Decided to uninstall in Safe mode to be safe :wink: rebooted than back to safe mode to reinstall as well. Ran a scan in safe mode too, just to be sure. But this is puzzeling me ??? after installing and the control panel came up, it appeared to be the same as what I uninstalled :o, said it was registered? same settings? and date & registration key as before! It changed after I rebooted to a blank control panel but If I used the utility to uninstall shouldn’t it have been clean from any trace of Avast? So I’m not so sure if it is a clean reinstall :-\

Nor do I think I’ve corrected the problem I was having, shortly after I open I.E or foxfire I hear my harddrive racing and it starts to over heat after some time. Very little CPU usage or memory except for Avast & svchost.exe and even when I close the browser they keep running.?