I’m having an intermittent problem with the Avast scanner freezing up during scans. This does not occur every time though. This occurs with archive on as well as with standard and thorough Avast scans.

I checked my HD for errors and there isn’t a fragmentation problem because the HD is defragmented weekly.

After each occurrence of the Avast scanner freezing I needed to do a hard restart of the machine. The entire OS stops responding.

Also, after each occurrence, upon reboot, I ran online scanner for Housecall. This online scanner ran with no problem on my machine. It has gotten to where I run the online internet scanner and if it find something I run an Avast scan just on those selected folders so I can send the infected file to the Avast virus chest so I can email them to Alwil.

Win98, 392mb memory.