Today Avast Free notified my sister that her PC running XP had several 
dangerous add-ons and she let Avast take care of the problem. Then MS Office 
would not work or Excel. She tried rebooting and got the message that 
Windows needed to be reinstalled.
Well, I'm not sure what she finally did to get to System Restore, but that 
worked.
Avast came up with the same warning and I told her not to let it do anything 
and tomorrow I will tell her how to disable that part of Avast./
Anyone else had those kind of problem with Avast.
I will call her tomorrow and see if I can get her to send me the add-ons 
that Avast insists of getting rid of.
Anyone else having similar problems with the free Avast?
Thanks,
Buffalo 

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