my reaction last night after realizing the issue...

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Avast auto-updated and later I re-booted…of course I started getting false-positives…luckily my instincts warned my to not delete, though I did chose the “no action” button.

after a quick search and realizing there was a widespread problem, I tried running one of the programs affected and it wouldn’t run. I shut-down Avast and then the program would run properly.

Realizing this could be a huge issue, I uninstalled AVAST, figuring I’ll re-install once things are repaired.

So, when I re-install tonight after work, will the programs affected still not run, or is there some remaining files the uninstaller didn’t delete that I should manually delete so I can put this whole episode behind me.

Thanks.

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If you haven’t removed any files then there should be no problem.

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My concern is that there might still be a file for AVAST that wasn’t deleted with the uninstall that will still flag my programs so they still don’t run…I do consider myself lucky here, not having deleted anything.

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If you install from scratch then even if there was such a file it would be overwritten by the installer. So I think you’re one of the few lucky ones here who doesn’t have to worry, really…