I did exhaustive tests to make sure that the newly installed memory wasn't the cause of the problem. I have been using the free Avast over the past three years on two W7/64 bit machines and two Windows XP SP3 machines with the Windows firewall in all cases and I have had not trouble with this application until the other week.Īfter I upgraded the RAM from 12 GB to 24 GB on one of my W7/64 machines I kept getting BlueScreen (BSs) of the type IRQL NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS_THAN_ZERO with code 0x0000.A with a stop at a consistent RAM address. Since I've been using Avast, I've not had a major infection on my system. Needless to say both of them had to be wiped and have windows reinstalled to get them working fine, as AVG had let malware directly around it, and they were pretty deeply embedded. I will say the last machines I saw that had AVG, were badly infected. In safe mode, try to uinstall Avast, then reboot and immediately download and reinstall AVG. I also find that Avast many times has found things left behind by other programs.Īs far as everything, if you want AVG back on, hit f8 before the windows loading bar, it should give you a menu, boot into safe mode. I used to be a big AVG fan, but started using Avast and not looking back. Guess I just don't have confidence in their product if they couldn't sell enough copies to consider it a moneymaker, and started giving it away. They tried to sell an antivirus called Live OneCare a few years back, couldn't, and started giving away Security Essentials.
Who says Avast is not a good AV? I'd use it before I would use Microsoft's Security Essentials.
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