Try running a repair on Avast. Go to the control panel and click on programs and features. Find Avast and click on uninstall. The Avast uninstaller will give you the option to repair it. If that is unsuccessful then simply re-install Avast.
Did the repair before posting it took two re installs to get it to work and then I notice avast had a hijacker called google drive. I had found this on my computer the other day and removed it. Is this something that avast requires now to run? and why was I not asked before this was installed on my computer? Or at least informed by the avast installed that it would be installed I really dont like having google on hereā¦
It is not a Hijacker. Google Drive is a cloud storage app which is used by millions including myself. When you installed Avast you had the option to not install Google Drive by unticking the check mark. You must have missed this. Just uninstall it. I love how people complain about Google but yet Google is the first place they go when searching for something online. I use everything Google. I even own a Chromebook.
Not everyone uses Google first. The only thing of Googleās that I use is the map search (and thatās not very often). I use Ixquick for all my other searches, IE10 for my browser, and Yahoo for my email. I trust Google about as far as I can spit upwind in a stiff breeze. Once thing I noticed when I pretty much quit using Google was the amount of spam I had been getting dropped dramatically.
FYIā¦Yahoo email has been hacked for the passed months and has been rated one of the worst web based emails. Outlook.com and Gmail are the top web based email.
Alsoā¦Unless you have something to add to correct cyberrat problem its best to keep your comments to yourself.
Which version of avast, free, Pro, AIS or Premier? What other security software do you have now or ever had? If uninstalled how was it uninstalled?
Security software includes anti-virus, firewall and anti-spyware/malware.
Two things you might want to try. Repair while in safe mode or a clean install.
My reply is the second one. But the first one so it is rated āreply #1ā. Again please refrain from posting unless you actually have something helpful to add. Thanks. Here is an example of helping a forum user.
āAgain please refrain from posting unless you actually have something helpful to add?ā When someone from Avast tells me to refrain from posting I will. You sir/madame have no say about what I post. :
Well Iām not from avast, but the pair of you need to pack it in as it isnāt helping this topic at all, not to mention the OP considers it resolved.
As both of you are saying if you arenāt contributing to the topic subject then donāt contribute.
Donāt make the mistake of saying Iām not contributing, Iām intervening.