It’s obviously conflicting with something in or on your particular system. Without knowing what OS you are running, what other things are or have previously been installed, and the hardware in the machine, there is little anyone can suggest to help.
Am running clean, except for Avast. I do not have Spybot resident, though it is installed for scans etc.
This is a fresh restore (HP Pavillion a 6330f) and clean !
Very experienced Windows Vista user and systems analyst by trade - go ahead and get indignant over the title of my post and start suggesting solutions. I guarantee you I can follow along…
Am open to radical solutions, if such is required.
I promise to stay if you agree to help. Sorry for the title of the post, but my client is poor, makes little from his E-Mail-based business, and I am assisting for free.
Go ahead! Read previous reply - am a computer pro and ready to listen to experts here. Please help.
I am a very experienced Windows 7 user and I could not wait until I upgraded to Windows 7.
If your client is poor then they have good help here but not if you start off on the wrong foot by stating that Bad Reviews all over the place in the works.
You have to learn a lot about avast! and its strong user base and very helpful forum here.
All devices and the OS look clean. All peripherals and buss-based devices working well - no errors.
One admission and confession: I disabled Avast! WebRep in the original install, because I mistaked it for a toolbar add-in, but no subsequent reinstalls seem to change the status.
Am impressed with the rapidity and obvious expertise of the replies here.
I’ve been using avast free ever since I got internet access, maybe 15 years ago (avast ver. 95, if I remember correctly), and never had any problems with it, with one brief exception. At one point, one new version conflicted with Eudora mail (which I no longer use), but the Avast crew (Alwil, back then) quickly got that corrected.
While no security product is 100 percent, avast works hard at getting as close as it can and still remain user-friendly. More importantly, we’re unaware of any competing product which offers anywhere near the level of support and service you’ll find here in the forums.
If I sound like a “fanboy”, so be it, sorry about that. But I (and most of us here) definitely don’t consider avast junk freeware.
None. This is a clean install/restore and I configured SpyBot NOT to be resident or TSR.
It’s CLEAN, mostly. ! Have CCleaner, IE 7 Pro and Hostsman installed.
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SpyBot is a waste of hard disk space and has not kept up with the times.
What is IE 7 Pro?
If it is what I think it is I gave up on that years ago.
I use IE9.
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YoKenny is the one who assisted me four years ago from another client’s machine…
IE 7 Pro is a Windows Explorer add-in for ad-blocking and popup blacking. I run it on my own machine and recommend it…
No, the D: drive recovery partition was blown out by the Linux installer, or somehow rendered ineffective, but I did use the OEMrecover disks. The recovery partition is now active…
Honestly, I uninstalled the factory Norton, because I was afraid of nag screens and spyware.
BUT, any 60-9o Norton thing was blown out by the Linux installer, whom I would like to strangle…