I've used Avast free for a long time. I've just spent over a week trying to find the cause of various BSODs and screen freezes. I tried a lot of things like updating drivers and restoring an image. This version of Avast is buggy there is a on and off problem with the definition update being...
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Today is 'Patch Tuesday'. Even though on Auto, checked for Updates & 5 Important were available:
3 Updates for Win8 CP x64
Definition Update for Office 2010
Update for .NET Framework 4.5 on Win8 CP x64
These were all that should have been available.
ALL Successful
Immediately after Restart...
I have Windows 7 Ultimate and I have my Windows Update settings set to "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them." The reason I use this setting is because even though I usually install the updates (because mostly they improve things), sometimes I'll see an update that I know...