My Win XP machine showed a popup last night to update Avast Pro, did that and rebooted. Version shows 7.0.1466. Now slow to boot and shutdown, sometimes boots to a blank desktop, sometimes won’t load services, can’t browse web with any browser but can get email and ping web. Did a full scan overnight, found nothing, nothing odd on HJT.
My other XP box continued to work fine. This morning, popup promt to update Avast Free - I should have known better - did that and now this box is same as above.
Can’t help but think this upgrade did it!
Any advice!
- OS…?? (32/64 Bit…? - which SP…?)
- Other security related software installed…??
Win XP as I said, 32bit, SP3, fully updated.
Also Zone Alarm firewall only. It could be a ZA and Avast interaction but haven’t had a problem until now.
Have to go to work now, will be back later.
Yes, I also think that it’s ZA related.
I (personally) would drop ZA.
Thanks, Asyn, I’ve removed ZA and everything works, so I think it will stay off. Sorry my post this morning was not very coherent - typed on the phone (as my only remaining browser) in a hurry. Would you be able to suggest a firewall that will play nicely with Avast?
For now I’m using the Windows XP Firewall. I also have a new NAT router with a Firewall that I haven’t learned to configure yet :-[
You’re welcome.
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