Web Shield causes IE to crash

I have a computer that came with Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit pre-installed, on which I have the latest version of Avast installed. IE9, both 32 and 64-bit, works fine. I recently installed Win 7 Pro 64-bit on the E partition, and after installing the latest version of Avast, discovered that the 32-bit version of IE8 and IE9 work, but, in both cases, the 64-bit version immediately and consistently crashes, with the message “Internet Explorer has stopped working”. With IE10 and IE11, both the 32 and 64-bit versions crash. After a lot of experimenting, I discovered that turning off Web Shield in Avast fixed the problem.

I can live with IE9 32-bit for the time being, but would like to eventually upgrade to IE11, and don’t like the idea of turning Web Shield off. Does anybody have any ideas on how I can get IE to work with Web Shield?

I can tell you that I’m using Win 7 64 bit with avast 2014 free and IE 11 and all is well with the web shield on and IE9 worked fine before I upgraded to 11 sooooo possibly some add-on you are using?

Sorry, forgot to mention that running IE without add-ons produces the same result. I also ran sfc /scannow and Microsoft Fix It.

Try a repair…Control Panel>Uninstall a Program>double click “avast”>click “repair”>reboot :slight_smile:

As mentioned by Para-Noid try a repair. If it doesn’t work uninstall it via Add/Remove, run avast uninstall utility, and download and run Avast Cleanup Tool found from here http://rejzor.wordpress.com/avast-cleanup-tool/

Note: Run Avast Cleanup Tool in normal mode. After using Avast Cleanup Tool, restart your computer manually. After that download and install a fresh new copy of Avast, register your copy of avast, and restart your computer manually again.

Thanks for the suggestions, guys, but still no luck.

Is it possible that the fact it’s installed on partition E is causing a problem?