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recently a friend of mine sent me a link to a youtube page, and an avast antivirus alert popped up as the page loaded saying it blocked some sort of malicious code, then i tried going to a few different other legitimate sites, like google, yahoo, microsoft.... every site set off avast, so i ran...

I have installed [4/5/2011] Win7 SP1 (via windows update) on an Acer Aspire 1410-8414 notebook, with Win7 home premium installed. Now no browser [IE, FF or Chrome] will load any website. The computer connects to the internet, and media players will open streaming net radio and...

OK, so I have recently wiped my hard drive (7 pass process) and I have reinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium. I then proceeded to update to SP1. Everything is good so far. Then, I found a page on here that had useful programs to download (Located Here). "SWEET!" I thought. So I downloaded a...

Hi I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials for a while along with AVG Anti Virus software. In the last two weeks 3 people that I help out computer wise have gotten the Fake Antivirus Trojan, all of them using only MSE. I've never gotten any of these things while running both...

Step 1: I insert a USB stick Step 2: copy something FROM it to my hdd Step 3: I right-click the safely remove icon from the system tray Step 4: no USB devices are listed..... only the "open devices and printers" button is listed frustrating.... Why? Notes: - I searched the forums for a...

Hi Guys, Been having very sporadic BSOD's for months now and I've tried everything I can think of and more. The BSOD message just says check for recently installed hardware and the error codes is just a load of zeros but up until a few weeks ago I had not replaced any parts. I've updated all...

Hello, I'm using Windows 7 64 bit and get blue screens frequently. I've alredy tried to update my video card drivers, audio driver (I'm using the new beta now), replacing Avast with ESET NOD32 and replacing Daemon Tools with Virtual CloneDrive but I still get blue screens. (not only when...

I'm using windows 7 home prem 64bit. This problem just happened today. I sign on with my password and the system says welcome, but won't actually login. It just hangs there. I used Avast to do a complete scan, but it didn't come up with anything. I used MS security essential it found a bunch of...

Hi, i need help. Since 4 or 5 months ago i keep getting BSOD power state failure, last week i saw in BlueScreenView that snoskrnl.exe was the problem, but i don't know what to do with that. I think i need to uninstall AVAST, so i'm going to do it now, i don't know if i have to do something...

I was just over on the Avast Forum Apparently there is a bug in version 5.1.864. You need to uninstall and run the uninstall utility before installing. They still appear to be having problems following that. I'd wait until at least the next version. Update 5.1.864 creating problems Joe

My Acer 7736Z-4809 laptop (pre-installed w/ Win7 Home Premium 64bit, so I don't have the Win7 CD) was recently hit with a virus. I constantly got the BSOD "iaStor.sys" and a black screen. Startup Repair at first couldn't complete repair, but when I tried again, it found no errors. Tried System...

Hi, There are daily BSODs in my computer. It can happen 5 minutes after turning computer on after 12 hours using it. It happens both when doing something or in idle mode. Haven't been able to figure our what programs are open that time but for sure IE8 and Windows Live Messenger 2009 are...

I keep getting this error "Your current security settings don't allow this file to be downloaded" when I try to download virus programs, I've got it when trying to download AVG, Avast! and MSE. It's really annoying and need to get one as my AVG 9.0 has expired. Oh and the computer in question...

I'm not sure if this problem goes here, but here it is anyways. I'm trying to launch a game I recently installed. Everything was fine and dandy until I actually tried to play. Everytime I tried to launch it, it comes up saying that my administration is insufficient. I am the administrator and...

I have several problems with my new computer. I have uninstalled Avast and Firebug (plugin to Firefox) but it did not help.. :( I sure would like to have Firebug installed but that would not work? Thanks in advance!

I am receiving the message that my computer has recently recovered from an unexpected shutdown. Actually it is happening on two of my PCs that are both running Windows 7 and Office 2007. Both are aslo running Avast for virus protection. One PC was purchased about 3 months ago and the other is...

This morning my computer restarted itself after carrying out a Windows Update, unprompted, as usual. However, when I woke up and logged in my wireless network would not allow me internet access. Instead I get a yellow exclamation mark over the signal strength bars. In addition to this the...

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Hi, I have a Dell Core2Duo laptop with Vista Home Premium 64 with SP2. It's connected to my network wirelessly however I've tried it wired too but that made no difference. On the network are a number of devices; 2 windows 7 Home Premium 64 machines and a brand new netgear ReadyNas Duo, all...

Hi I am using Windows 7 with a router connected to the internet. On my main PC, which is connected to the router with a LAN cable, I have a couple of sites that I can not access. It gives me a Connection Reset in all browsers. The curious thing is that all the other computers, connected to...