From: Gary Britt 

That is a good suggestion, and I appreciate your trying to be helpful.  I
might make such a forum post at some point when I have more time.  After
all I'm the proud owner of a brand new and now unused Avast Pro license. 
It would be nice if that money wasn't a total waste.

The problem with posting is that I wasn't before and certainly aren't now
in a situation, time or otherwise, to test changes and play with things to
see if this or that or the other thing fixes the situation.

I don't have the luxury of running my main computer that generates income
without antivirus protection while I keep trying to test Avast and computer
setup changes.  I need working antivirus and working email every day.  So
that means install an antivirus that works and move on.  I don't have the
luxury of having a machine around that doesn't get used for work and income
generation to play with Avast Pro setups to try and get them to work.  Heck
it might work on a different machine (who knows), but I need antivirus on
*my* machine and I can't risk my main work computer getting hosed while I
play around with Avast.

So I really had no choice but to move on, and I've been really happy with
NOD32 (knock wood) so far.  It definitely scans much faster for manual
scans and its realtime scanner impacts computer horsepower less than Avast
did. They also update their virus signatures so frequently that they have
their autoupdate check for new signatures once every hour.  Sometimes I get
two updates in a single day.  I thought Avast was pretty quick with their
updates which came out daily or every couple or so days at a minimum, but
NOD32 updates more often than Avast.  NOD32 also includes built-in spyware
protection as part of its database of virus infection prevention.  So it
scans for, manual and/or realtime, not just for virii but also for spyware
and trojan stuff.

Thanks for offering help and suggestions!

Gary

mike wrote:
> Whatever works for you.  Choice is nice.
>
> (but I was suggesting posting a comment on the forum...)
>
>  /m
>
> On Tues, 12 Jung 2007 22:50:59 -0400, Gary Britt
>  wrote:
>
>> I searched their forums but didn't see an avalanche of problems like mine.
>> I didn't have any more time to waste on Avast, it had already wasted a *lot*
>> of my time because it was the last thing I ever would have thought was the
>> problem since I had used it for 2 years on that machine.
>>
>> I've already moved on to a paid version of NOD32.  So far so good with that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> mike wrote:
>>> Avast has a lively user support forum on their website.
>>>
>>>  /m
>>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:32:02 -0400, Gary Britt
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> No I didn't try that, but the free version is just the pro
version without
a
>>>> license number having been entered that activates script
blocking for IE
and
>>>> a couple of minor interface enhancements.  They are the same program
really,
>>>> but you are right I could have tried going back to the free version.
>>>>
>>>> No I didn't contact Avast tech support because after
looking at their
forums
>>>> I could tell all they were going to tell me was to make
adjustments to my
>>>> firewall settings and I had already done all that and even
uninstalled the
>>>> firewall all together.
>>>>
>>>> No didn't try AVG because I liked what I read about NOD32
and its supposed
>>>> superior detection and lighter footprint and performance hit.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>>>>> Did you try the free version again (AVAST) to see if
it's only the Pro
>>>>> version?
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you send AVAST tech support an email with all that
you tried?
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you give AVG Free a try?
>>>>>

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