On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:04:36 +0000 (UTC), Dustin 
wrote:

>"Buffalo"  wrote in
>news:lq474i$98u$1@dont-email.me: 
>
>>>"Mark Warner"  wrote in message news:lq4443$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.
>
>Avast has done the same to a number of my clients.. It's also forced an 
>image reload at one point, when it wrongly removed something.. I've seen 
>what you described happen before is what I'm saying.. hence my question to 
>Mark.. :)
>
>> 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,
>
>Sound advice. :) 

Get rid of Avast and sleep soundly. That's sounder advice.

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