>"Mark Warner"  wrote in message news:lq4443$nq1$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>On 7/15/2014 4:01 PM, Dustin wrote:
>> Mark Warner  wrote
>>> On 7/14/2014 10:42 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Wasn't Avast.
>>
>> Eh? Explain please....
>
>What he describes is classic rogue anti-malware behavior, as described by 
>his sister. Clueless users can't tell the difference between their legit 
>installed AV and a rogue -- that's why rogues are as successful as they 
>are.
>
>Someone that knows what he's doing needs to do a hands-on disinfection 
>routine on the machine.
>
You sure jump to conclusions without the facts.
When she emails me the add-ons (that’s what she called them) I will post 
them here.
I also had problems with the free Avast Browser Cleanup and the Grime 
Fighter and the Web Shield options. I have them disabled.
The Browser Cleanup option also caused me a problem last year with some 
Avast falsely identified  browser add-on etc, and I had to reinstall some 
program because I let it uninstall whatever it found. No, the Avast restore 
feature did not work.
Do I think the free Avast is a good program, NO, I think it is a GREAT 
program as long as you don't let it do everything automatically or agree to 
do what it says for everything,
-- 
Buffalo 

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