Re: Avast and blank Desktop

Follow the link to Norton you were given. Symantec has spyware in all
their programs that does not un-install when the program they are
attached to is un-installed. Reason enough for me not to use any
program they own. My 1st encounter with this was 3 years ago with
Turbo-Tax. At 1st they would not admit they had such a program.

Tom J

"Buffalo" <eric(nospam)@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:UY-dnT155_pdzI7eRVn-1w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I uninstalled Norton Anti-Virus (Part of NSW2003 Pro) several days
>ago and
> installed the free Home version of Avast.
> Twice upon first boot up in the morning, I end up with a blue screen
> with no
> Desktop or Taskbar. (the first time I rebooted around 5 times before
> I got to a
> normal Desktop)
> Never happened before the anti-virus change. May just be a
> co-incidence since
> that problem didn't happen until a few days after I did the switch.
> During the blank screen (blue) my USB optical mouse works just fine
> and when I
> did a ctrl-alt-del to bring up the End Program box (Win98SE) there
> were no
> programs listed.
> This morning when I booted up the first time, the same thing
> happened except
> that when I brought up the Close Program box, Avast was the only
> program listed
> (rather than none). I did an End Task on it, waited a minute and
> then pressed
> the reset button. It then booted up just fine.
> (this morning I had my cable modem set to Standby during the first
> bootup try)
> I had Avast set to notify me if an update was present and to ask
> permission to
> install it.
> Today, I set it to Manual.
> I also use ZAPro,SpyWareBlaster,and Adaware.
> Is it possible that Avast was trying to connect to the Internet
> (cable) to look
> for an update before ZAPro got loaded and caused this hangup?
> Since this problem has only happened two different mornings, it is
> not so easy
> for me to isolate.
> Any ideas or did anyone else have this happen to them?
> Thanks
>
>


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