Archive for the 'Avast' Category

My computer slows down a lot. The problem seems to be Wcault.exe This program is in my “processes” window, and is the automatic download program for windows. The “cure” is supposed to be one of two things. One is to set the parameters for automatic downloads to “never” or once a [...]

My comPuter is totally effing up. The wireless keeps stopping randomly and when I hit Ctrl alt del and went to processes I saw about 100 processes called “302.exe” or another random 3 digit exe. The first thing I did was ipconfig release and scan with avast. It found 28 viruses in system restore information [...]

I have avast! free anti virus and just now i got MCAfee with Adobe flash player, should i keep both?
If i keep both, are there any consequences?

Ok so i got this computer virus and its really bad it slows my computer to very slow speed. But heres the worst part; every anti virus scan i try to do it crashes and not just one AV but lots including malewarebytes avast avira etc. (they also crash at the same place everytime) I [...]

Hello i have avast 6 and it wont boot scan. i say schedule now then settings then areas to scan then i select all hard disks and press ok then hit schedule now (becasue whenever i pick areas to scan it reverts it back) then i press restart computer. However it wont scan it will [...]

I have Galaxy Pop 2.3.6 ginger bread
I have rooted my cell recently. And these days i am downloading lots off apps like.
1. No frills – for under-clocking and over-clocking.
2. Picsay- for animating the pics.
3. Avast and Kaspersky – for anti-virus
4. supa pi- for calculating the stability of my processor even in over-clocking.
5. cacheRoot- to liberate [...]

My computer is about 6 months old, so should be working fine. About a week ago it started running very slowly. I download a lots from Pirate Bay with Utorrent, and I feel that may be the cause. I have always had the free version of Avast! antivirus and have tried running virus scans on [...]

My computer has a program call “ARO 2011″. It was installed Dec 13, 2011. The only programs I have installed lately are Malwarebytes, Avast and Open Office.
ARO did a search of my computer Tuesday after it locked up over night. I had to turn off my computer with the “switch” & resign [...]

I don’t think you can go wrong with either, they are both good AV’s, I suggest you install the free version of each, and see which one you like better, then buy.

So, my windows firewall is on, but I want my avast internet security to be my main firewall. Normally when people change antivirus, the firewall of the antivirus is automatically changed to the main one isn’t it? When I disable the windows firewall, it doesn’t say that the firewall now is the one from avast. [...]