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Hello. I'm wondering what you think is the best anti-virus software. Right now I am using one of the more popular brands but am not very happy with it. I have found twice now that this software package not only didn't stop a virus but didn't even detect it when I did a full system scan. Could...

Hi All I recently purchased a Samsung Laptop, everything worked well for the first 3 days. Yesterday I installed Avast Internet Security Version 6.0 (I had a free license available) Also right before shutting off the pc (for the last time it worked correctly) Windows 7 installed 61 updates...

Hi everyone recently after few minutes of power on of windows i got this: Link Removed not only this, the cpu usage become at 100%, slowing the whole pc, it even hangs a little and the clock glass cursor keep forever I Used: Avast Free 6 Malware Bytes Anti-Malware...

Hi everybody recently my laptop acting very weird. 1- GTA Vice City, the game i play from 2003 till now, suddenly won't run for the first time ever in my life. i did uninstalled it completely and re-install, still won't run. 2- when i run Vice city and getting a "not responding" the cursor...

My husbands vista laptop won't download files. The go into firefox and disapear. We tried downloading Avast because he has the crap avg but it won't download that either. The internet exlporor will not open. I asked on another forum but both my account here and the account on vista forums...

Hello, greetings to all. I have some problems with BSOD. About one month, month and a half my PC started freezing and BSOD errors were shown to me. The problem was i couldn't do anything on the PC, 'cos it crashed sometimes even when playing Spider Solitaire. The freezes and BSOD were random...

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...